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Deccan Herald — Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook data scientist and a whistleblower, has revealed the involvement of Vinod Kumar Sonkar, BJP MP of Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh, in a large network that acted in a coordinated way to promote him ahead of the 2019 elections.

Deccan Herald — For a month now, Aliya Assadi and seven other girls have been protesting for their right to attend classes wearing headscarves. Students of the first and second pre-university courses in Udupi's Government Women's PU College, these girls are demanding the right to practise their religion, while they attend college.

Deccan Herald — Chowdaiah, a farmer from Ramasamudra in Chamarajnagar district, had to sell a pair of bullocks he bought by paying Rs 76,000 recently, to spend on his wife's medical emergency. He sold them for Rs 60,000 at the weekly cattle fair at Gundlupet due to the lack of buyers.

Deccan Herald — The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) wrote on Friday to state governments asking them to make sure 'mild, very mild, pre-symptomatic' COVID-19 patients had proper home isolation facilities before letting them go into home isolation. On the same day, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal mandated five days of government quarantine for COVID-19 patients in Delhi.

Citizen Matters — September 25, 2013, 7 am. A team of 224 left Bangalore in five buses on route to Salem. The team was not an ordinary team - it had all bigwigs who govern the city. Whether segregation at source helps the cause of garbage management is an ongoing debate.

Deccan Herald — When he was in Class 5, watching movie stars like Mahesh Babu or Shankar Nag smoking cigarettes fascinated Vinay (name changed) no end. He would watch the curls of smoke go up in the air, awestruck. One day out of curiosity he tried smoking a half-burnt cigarette thrown away by his friend's father.

citizenmatters.in — This article is supported by SVP Cities of India Fellowship. In our previous article, we saw how talent coming out of IT engineering colleges do not have the skill sets the IT industry needs. In this article, we look at what the solutions could be.

citizenmatters.in — This article is supported by SVP Cities of India Fellowship. Shreyas sat on the 'bench' for a few months after being selected by a top information technology company in Bengaluru through a campus recruitment drive. Coming from a tier-1 college in the city, and even after undergoing an induction programme, he wasn't given any project to work on.

citizenmatters.in — In April last year, Citizen Matters had published an article on Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the Urban Development Department apologising to the National Green Tribunal (NGT); This was after the BBMP had claimed the NGT's order increasing the buffer zone to 75 metres was not applicable retrospectively.

citizenmatters.in — Nalapada Ahamad Haris, Member of Legislative Assembly from Shantinagar, has been in news for all wrong reasons recently, due to the controversy related to his son. Going by media reports, he is in the danger of losing the Indian National Congress (INC) ticket this time, to contest from Shantinagar.