Sreenivasan Jain Age, Wiki and Bio

Sreenivasan Jain

Quick Info

ProfessionJournalist
NationalityIndian
Date of Birth01/01/1973
Age51 years

Bio/Wiki

Other NameVasu
Known forAnchoring the weekly ground reportage show Truth vs Hype on NDTV 24x7

Physical Stats & More

Height170 cm
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Educational Qualification(s)

SchoolRishi Valley School, Delhi
College/University
  • Hindu College, University Of Delhi
  • University of Sussex, England

Personal Life

AgeNot Known

Relationships & More

Marital StatusNot Known

Family

FatherLakshmi Chand Jain
MotherDevaki Jain

Career

Awards
  • 2006: Best Anchor News/Current Affairs Award by the Indian Television Academy
  • 2014: Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year
  • 2015: Journalist of the Year Award at the RedInk journalism awards by Press Club, Mumbai
  • 2022: India's Most Trusted News Anchor since 2019

Some Lesser Known Facts

Jain joined NDTV in 1995.
He served as NDTV’s Mumbai bureau chief from 2003 to 2008.
In 2010, he became the Managing Editor of the business channel within the NDTV Group.
By 2015, Jain became an Op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper.
In 2017, Jain addressed NDTV's removal of a report by him and Manas Pratap Singh through a Facebook post.
In 2018, Jain sent a legal notice to columnist Rajiv Mantri.
In 2020, Jain faced an incident where stones were thrown at him during reporting on the Delhi CAA riots.
In 2021, Jain tweeted about Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin being substandard.
In 2022, Jain provided Rs. 50,000 for Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair's bail.
In February 2022, Jain faced verbal insults from a girl in Uttar Pradesh while covering the state assembly elections.