S.Chandra Mohan

The news of the passing away of UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s father Anand Singh Bisht at AIIMS Delhi on Monday was met with grief at the village of Panchur in Pauri Garhwal where Bisht, a former forest ranger, had been living with his family since the past few decades.

Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday allocated the finance portfolio to the lone woman member of his cabinet Ajanta Neog, making her the first female finance minister of the state. In the last NDA government, Sarma had held this portfolio.

As many as 2174 encounters have taken place in UP in this period, roughly five per day. The Samajwadi Party (SP) in UP has been questioning these encounters.