Congress Party published a commemorative edition of the National Herald

.Chennai:13/6/17: The National Herald was established in Lucknow on 9th September 1938 by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India as an English daily. Nehru was the first editor of the paper. It was a nationalistic paper, mouth piece of Congress Party and suffered heavily under the British rule. It had two of the most respected journalists as its editors: K. Rama Rao and M. Chalapati Rau, who was the longest serving editor. Feroze Gandhi served the paper for some years as its Managing Editor. The paper ceased operations in 2008 due to ‘financial constraints’. T V Venkitachalam was the editor then.
There have been plans to revive the paper. The web edition was made functional last year.
on, 12 June 2017 Congress Party published a commemorative edition of the National Herald to mark the 70th year of Independence. Vice President Dr Hamid Ansari inaugurated it in the presence of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The official launch of the edition and formal print re-launch of the newspaper will be in New Delhi on June 20th by President Dr Pranab Mukherjee. The paper for the time being will be published as a weekly. Neelabh Mishra is the editor-in-Chief of the paper now