| Samir Jain | |
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| Born | 11 March 1954 New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Occupation | Vice-Chairman of The Times Group |
| Net worth | US$2.8 billion (2011)[1] |
| Religion | Hindu |
| Spouse | Meera Jain |
| Children | Trishla Jain |
| Parents | Indu Jain Ashok Kumar Jain |
| Relatives | Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain |
Samir Jain (born 1954) belongs to the Sahu Jain family and is the current Vice-Chairman of India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., Times of India and other large newspapers. He is a spiritualist, an entrepreneur, an educationalist, a humanist, a patron of art and culture. In his capacity as Vice-Chairman of The Times Group, Samir has since infused new energy into the growth of India's largest media house.
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Samir Jain was educated at St. Stephen's College earning a degree in B.A. Programme. He is married to Meera Jain and is father to Trishla Jain who is a well-known artist.[2][3][4]
Samir took over his father’s company in 1982, and spent the 1980s remaking Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) into an innovative marketing company. He sensed the zeitgeist and was poised when the liberalisation reform in 1991 allowed a new Indian with money to spend and immediate desires to gratify. His business proposition was simple: he would connect sellers of goods to this vast market of consumers. He was the first in media industry to dispense with the post of an Editor.
During Samir's time, the Times of India has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.[5][6][7][8]
The magazines run by the The Times Group are [9]:
Along with the above, the group also publishes several supplements for their magazines.
Apart from a number of publications, the group also controls Times Now, India's most wide-reaching [12] television news network. The group also owns the popular movie channel Movies Now.
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