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]QAnon’s ‘independent and self-sustaining’ rise in Japan shows the conspiracy theory’s global spread
Like its US counterpart, Japan’s QAnon community centers on an unsubstantiated belief that Trump is battling to save the world from a cabal of pedophiles, including Democrats and “deep state” agents, and is perhaps most notable for its reverence of Michael Flynn.
Published on Nov 30, 2020 12:39 PM IST
By Bloomberg | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri
New day, new villain: Rohit Roy on media coverage of Sushant’s death
Rohit Roy feels that the constant speculations are driving people away from the main discussion - mental health
Published on Aug 10, 2020 05:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By Navneet Vyasan
Sushant’s case is long drawn battle, says Ananth Mahadevan
Ananth Mahadevan feels mysterious deaths often don’t have closure citing the examples of Marilyn Monroe, Divya Bharti, Jiah Khan and Disha Salian
Updated on Aug 06, 2020 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By Kavita Awaasthi
Swara Bhasker defends Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist, says all codes of conduct went out of the window when photos of his body were shared
Swara Bhasker defended Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist Susan Walker for revealing details of his diagnosis, saying that she did so in a ‘genuinely exceptional circumstance’.
Updated on Aug 02, 2020 07:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Entertainment Desk
Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist: ‘He was suffering from depression and hypomania, Rhea Chakraborty his strongest support’
Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist has talked about the actor’s mental health issues, saying that he would seek therapy from her last year.
Updated on Aug 02, 2020 08:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Entertainment Desk
Undermining Sushant Rajput’s tragic death
Interrogate power structures, but don’t launch a witch-hunt
Updated on Jul 22, 2020 08:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
How Nepal’s PM is harming ties
KP Oli has left little scope for meaningful engagement
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 06:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
Battling coronavirus, with innovative messaging | HT Editorial
The use of social media platforms to disseminate best practices is welcome
Updated on Mar 10, 2020 10:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
Facebook bans news outlet from buying Donald Trump -supporting ads
The Epoch Times pushed ads under names such as “Honest Paper” and “Pure American Journalism”, bypassing Facebook’s political advertising transparency rules.
Updated on Aug 24, 2019 10:33 AM IST
San Francisco | By Indo Asian News Service
Tiny town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters
Rachel and its surroundings had long celebrated their spot in UFO lore as a tourist draw.
Published on Aug 22, 2019 03:15 PM IST
Rachel | By Reuters
German city offers 1 million euros to anyone who proves it doesn’t exist
The idea that Bielefeld doesn’t exist was first floated by computer expert Achim Held, who posted the satirical claim on the Internet in 1994 in an effort to poke fun at online conspiracy theories.
Updated on Aug 21, 2019 06:41 PM IST
BERLIN | By Associated Press
Humour: Moonstruck!
Nothing connects science with poetry quite as well as the endlessly fascinating satellite
Updated on Aug 03, 2019 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Rehana Munir
ICC World Cup 2019: Another ex-Pak cricketer says India will lose their remaining games intentionally
Sikander Bakht, who played 26 Tests and 27 ODIs for Pakistan, believes once the Men in Blue are through to the knockout stage, they will lose their remaining games to oust the Green Brigade of the tournament
Updated on May 27, 2020 10:31 PM IST
New Delhi | By Indo Asian News Service
Special court in Gujarat sentences accused in Godhra train carnage case to life imprisonment
With his sentence, a total of 32 accused in the case have been awarded life imprisonment and 11 convicts were given death penalty. Sixty-three accused have been acquitted in the case by the special investigation team (SIT) court while accepting the conspiracy theory behind the train carnage.
Published on Mar 21, 2019 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By HT Correspondent
Trump blasts theories of body double of his wife Melania
Trump alleged on Wednesday in a tweet that photos of his wife had been altered to make them appear as though a look-alike accompanied him to Alabama last week to survey tornado damage.
Updated on Mar 14, 2019 08:14 AM IST
Press Trust of India | By Press Trust of India
‘Very dangerous’: Arvind Kejriwal sees a conspiracy in 10% quota move
Kejriwal tweeted a conspiracy theory that the government move wasn’t just aimed at helping the poor among general category aspirants for jobs and education but part of a far larger game plan to end caste-based reservations.
Updated on Jan 09, 2019 04:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
Why the farmer suicide debate is counter-productive to understanding India’s agrarian crisis?
In the discourse on agriculture, for instance, farmer suicides are cited as the biggest proof of the agrarian crisis in the country by a large section.
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 07:46 AM IST
New Delhi | By Roshan Kishore
Online petition hits out at book endorsed by AICTE
Calling all experiments in the book “conspiracy theories”, experts said AICTE was endorsing pseudoscientific claims about supposed inventions of ancient India
Published on Sep 29, 2018 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By Shreya Bhandary, Mumbai
Review: The Republic of Beliefs by Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu questions the moorings of Law and Economics to show that political groups with retrograde ideas cannot further the cause of justice
Updated on Sep 28, 2018 07:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Roshan Kishore
Have Indian elections become a marketplace?
The Election Commission is considering imposing a cap on the amount of money a political party can spend on campaigning
Updated on Sep 01, 2018 04:17 PM IST
By Udayan Mukherjee
Tree census in Sector 91 following complaints
After protests from residents and environmental groups, the authority had stopped cutting trees.
Published on Aug 29, 2018 03:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Noida | By Snehil Sinha
Turkey’s crisis can be solved if Erdogan stops with his conspiracy theories
The latest evidence that it is can be found at the heart of Turkey’s current economic crisis. Turkey is saddled with debt and its currency, the lira, is plunging, yet the central bank has been all but prohibited from defending the currency by raising interest rates, because Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan believes that raising interest rates actually causes inflation.
Updated on Aug 18, 2018 06:44 PM IST
By Nina L Khrushcheva
Diet Sabya brought a smile to my face, Sabyasachi on Instagram handle calling out fashion copycats
Read on for what fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee said about Diet Sabya, an anonymous Instagram account that bluntly names and shames established and emerging designers, stylists and photographers for copying others’ designs.
Updated on Jul 24, 2018 12:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Sanya Panwar
PM assassination plot: There are holes in this bucket of conspiracy theories
It is silly that the police authorities did not consider all the discrepancies in their theories before linking Dalits to Maoists
Published on Jun 12, 2018 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
Former US President JFK was not shot from grassy knoll site: Study
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade at Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas. Oswald was arrested shortly after the shooting.
Updated on Apr 26, 2018 12:38 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington | By Press Trust of India
A tiger is stalking villages of Jhargram, and it’s all anyone can talk about
A month after it was first caught on camera, the big cat is still all anyone can talk about in Jhargram, West Bengal. There’s impatience and fear, conspiracy theories (‘there is no tiger’) and heated debates at chai shops over the best way to catch it.
Updated on Apr 02, 2018 01:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By Dipanjan Sinha
Who stole the lunch? US man’s hilarious tweets on office drama after co-worker’s lunch was stolen will surely grip you
Zak Toscani live-tweeted the investigation that was called by his co-worker whose lunch got stolen from his office’s refrigerator.
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 03:16 PM IST
By HT Correspondent