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| Sahu Jain family | |
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| Current region | Najibabad,Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| Distinctions | Owners ofBennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. |
TheSahu Jain family is an industrial family of India. They ownBennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (commonly known as The Times Group), which ownsThe Times of India, the most-circulated English-language newspaper in the world. The members of the extended family have interests in education (S P Jain School of Global Management), chemicals (DCW Ltd.) and finance (DoubleDot Ltd. and Crescent Finstock Ltd).
The family are from theJain community and has its origins in the small town ofNajibabad,Bijnor district (nearMeerut,Muzaffarnagar, 180 km from Delhi), present-dayUttar Pradesh, India.[1]
The leading members of the family have been Rai Bahadur Jagmundar Das Jain,Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain,Sahu Shreyans Prasad Jain,Ashok Kumar Jain,Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain,Samir Jain,Vineet Jain, Sahu Deepak Jain andIndu Jain.
TheJnanpith Awards are given by theBharatiya Jnanpith organization founded by the family. The group has also founded a few other awards that are coveted honours in the fields of fashion, movies and business in India, namely theMiss India title,Filmfare Awards and theEconomic Times Awards.
The Times Group has diversified into many fields.The Times of India (the world's largest circulated English-language newspaper),The Economic Times, FMRadio Mirchi, the biweekly magazineFemina India, the Indiatimes portal, the 24 hours English news channelTimes Now, theBollywood news and music channelZoom are all owned by the Sahu Jain family.