Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the Congress was not offering a bouquet of promises to voters because he knew that change could not be brought about overnight.

Q My son is a salaried employee, with a monthly salary of `60,000. He wants to take a Rs 15-lakh car loan from me. Kindly advise if it is a better option than taking a bank loan from the perspective of both myself and my son.

In what has been an alarming development, a stray leopard on Friday created panic in Guwahati by injuring two people in the fourth incident of its kind in less than one month.

Bird flu, or avian influenza, has resurfaced in Tripura barely within a month of declaring the country free from the disease and culling has started in villages within a 3-km radius of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Lambuchera in West Tripura district where it was first detected.

Campaigning for the January 30 Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, which saw heavyweights of major political parties criss-crossing the hill state in spite of snow fall and intense cold, comes to an end on Saturday.

The Congress vision document that promises justice, rights and development to the people of Uttar Pradesh also focuses on minority empowerment and gives a major push to minority education and skill development through setting up new schools, recruitment of minority teachers, scholarships and vocational training.

The Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh finally again had to revert to the Ram temple issue to regain its lost political glory in the crucial state for the coming Assembly polls.

Manipur goes to polls on Saturday in the shadow of bomb attacks by militants to mark the start of crucial Assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.

Taking Punjab election campaigning to its crescendo, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed the Akalis and BJP for standing against the FDI in retail bill which is going to benefit the farmers immensely.

The Congress has promised to create two million new jobs in Uttar Pradesh in the next five years if elected to power in its “vision document” released in 10 cities across the state on Friday.