The government's Economic Survey 2016 put the average farm income in 17 states at just Rs 20,000 per annum (photo: PTI)

Opinion

What we don't know about minimum support price

A protest led by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan in Delhi against inadequate tax devolution to southern states

Opinion

The pitfalls of coercive federalism

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani (photo: Prakash Singh/Getty Images)

Opinion

The real reason Qatar freed our Navy veterans

A sample electoral bond (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

Herald View: Why the electoral bonds judgement is too little, too late

A smile that conceals? PM Narendra Modi (right) and home minister Amit Shah (photo: PTI)

Opinion

370 seats and other myths: Why is the BJP so sure of an election landslide?

Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar (second and third from left) at Manohar Joshi's funeral (photo: PTI)

Opinion

Manohar Joshi was clever. Was he wise?

Stonewalling all the evidence that the EVS needs reformatting, the ECI is running an awareness campaign to show all is well

Opinion

Why the trust deficit in the EVM

Women are often found overcrowded in stereotyped, low-productivity jobs

Opinion

Women's empowerment: slogans versus reality

Pakistan elections

Opinion

Pak Army shows its muscle again 

File photograph of Opposition MPs protesting the Electoral Bonds scheme in New Delhi

Opinion

Electoral bonds scheme should alert us to the weakness of our institutions

A violent clash erupted in Haldwani, Uttarakhand after the demolition of a mosque and madrasa on 8 Feb 2024

Opinion

Herald View: The horrors of Haldwani

Representative image of an aircraft (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

The underbelly of the flying machine

A sample electoral bond (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

Electoral bonds: SC verdict too little, too late, too early to celebrate?