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Albertsons stock hits 52-week low at $17.27 amid market shiftsThe latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 16 started with host Amitabh Bachchan paying a moving tribute to the courageous heroes of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks , honoring the memory of the innocent lives lost in the tragedy. The episode featured frontline warriors Vishwas Nangre Patil , Additional Director General of Police, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Maharashtra, and Sanjay Govilkar, Additional Superintendent of Police, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Mumbai, who took the hot seat to share their experiences and insights. As Vishwas Nangre Patil took the hot seat, host Amitabh Bachchan asked him if he remembers how his day began on 26/11. He says, "Sir uss raat 9:30 baje tak humari ASL meeting chali (Advanced Security Liasoning) and then I returned home in the inspectors quarters near Metro Theatre My wife was serving me food and exactly at 9:47 my phone rang and I got a call from the then Additional Commissioner of Police called me and asked ,me to reach the Leopard Cafe as there was an incident of firing and one of our constables was injured. I was in uniform, my bodyguard and driver were downstairs and asked them to be ready as we had to leave. I asked them to load their pistols. After my posting in South Mumbai I had issued a Glock pistol as it had 17-17 magazines in them. I loaded the pistol and left and around 9:49 I passed Metro when I started giving instructions on wireless. I asked for Nakabandi, immediately I called the mobile vans near the Leopard Cafe. By then I had got calls from the then DGP and ACP. Both called me informing that there was a blast in Taj, then immediately two other news of firing in Oberoi and CST Station also came in. I asked my driver to drive te\he car fast and take me to the Taj. I audited the security of Taj for 9 hours as per the rare entrance. I entered from the back gate and when he looked around at least 10-12 dead bodies were lying there as they were killing people. Without waiting for a bulletproof jacket and weapons, my bodyguard and I just entered. We countered and fired on them." Big B and the audience gave them a standing ovation. He resumed the game and announced that the winning amount will be donated to Bharat Ke Vaar NGO. The host presented the question for Rs 1000. Along with coconut, an extract from which of these is used in Solkadhi? Vishwas Nangre goes with Option C) Kokam. Vishwas Nangre went on to explain how he and his bodyguard battled the three terrorists and revealed there was a marriage going on at the Taj. He shared he only had two 15-15 Clog pistols while the three terrorists had grenades, AK-47 and RDX. He fired at the terrorist and one of them started limping. As there was too much chaos, Vishwas Nangre shared that to locate the terrorists he with his team of two constables went to the CCTV room. He misfired to make the teerorist come out and they saw in the camera three terrorists in two hotel rooms and they had made 5 people hostages. He immediately informed the then Commissioner of Police on wireless about the number of terrorists and how they had made people hostages. The then Commisioner of Police ordered to keep the terrosit Pin down as the Naval Commandos were reaching and the information was overheard by a media personal who aired it on a TV channel. The handlers sitting in Pakistan shared the information on VOIP phone to the terrorirst and asked them to damage the cameras and burn down the hotel. He also revealed the story of evacuation of the civilians. He praised the management of Taj and shared that with the help of walkie talkie, intercom and mobile phones, they managed to rescue 650 people. Later, the terrorist blasted the dome of the Taj and there was heavy smoke in the CCTV room and there was fire and they could barely see anything, The terrorist fired at them and the team got divided. Big B resumed the game again and asked Rs 10,000 questions. What branch of Mathematics mainly deals with lines, angles, surfaces, and solids? He selects Option D) Geometry. Vishwas Nangre Patil spoke how around 12:30 am he learnt about the demise of ATS Chief Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Shashank Shinde. He shared that the news got him furious and he decided that he would not spare the terrortist. Vishwas Nangre Pati shared that he went to get the martrayed body of the 21-year-old constable Rahul and saw his eyes were open, he had his rifle on his shoulder and finger on the trigger. Vishwas said, "Ladte Ladte woh shaheed hogaya tha." He further shared that Rahul's village was earlier called Sultanpur but now it is being renamed as Rahul Shinde Nagar, He recited beautiful lines, “Duniya mein mil jayenge aashiq kayi, magar vatan se khoobsurat sanam nahi hota, noto mein simat kar mare, sone mein lipat kar marein hain kayi, magar tirange se khoobsurat kafan nahi hota!”. Reflecting on the loss, Vishwas further shared, “At the time, we found out that many from our team were no longer with us. I was very close to them." He also recounted a deeply emotional moment: “In a bathtub, a mother lay with her 3-year-old child, protecting the child from the attack. I cannot sleep even today when I think about it.” Keep reading this space to know more brave stories about the 26/11 attack. How KBC changed Harshvardhan Nawathe's life...
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Republicans are more willing than Democrats to spread fake news—particularly during times of greater "political polarization," or competition between the parties—because they want to win more. That is the conclusion of a study, published in the Journal of Marketing , by marketing researchers Xiajing Zhu and Connie Pechmann, a professor at the University of California , Irvine. Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in marketing at the university. They found that Republicans respond to political competition more aggressively, communicating information that is likely untrue, if not definitively false, to boost their side. "Although Republicans may understand the content is very likely false, they are willing to spread it because they strongly value their party winning over the competition," Zhu said in a statement. "Democrats do not value winning nearly as strongly. They place more value on equity and inclusion, seeing the world in a fundamentally different way than Republicans," she said. Zhu and her colleagues came to their conclusion after a series of studies—the first two of which focused on fact-checked statements by U.S. public figures made in the news media and on social media between 2007 and 2022. Statements were sourced via the fact-checking website PolitiFact, which allows journalists to rate each statement on a six-point scale ranging from "true or accurate" to "pants on fire." The team's analysis indicated that at times when competition between the parties was heightened in the news, Republicans were 21 percent more likely to communicate misinformation than their Democrat counterparts were. The difference was reduced to just 9 percent during periods of low political polarization. To verify these findings, the team next conducted three online surveys in which participants—who identified explicitly as Democrat or Republican —were first placed in either a highly politically polarized or a low-polarization scenario. This was achieved by presenting the subjects with real quotes from existing Democratic and Republican Senate leaders that framed the relationship between the two parties as competitive and oppositional or cooperative and bipartisan. Next, each respondent was presented with misinformation about the other party. For example, conservative subjects were shown posts such as "A Democratic Senator is under investigation for helping Russian billionaires" and "Democratic Senators are deliberately creating the global food shortage." Liberal participants, on the other hand, were given posts like "A Republican Senator is under investigation for helping Russian billionaires" and "Republican Senators are deliberately creating the global food shortage." Finally, the subjects were asked, "How likely are you to make a Facebook post like these?" They were also asked if such a post would make their party stronger, better or more motivated. The results indicated that when political polarization was high, Republicans were significantly more willing to communicate misinformation to gain an advantage over the opposition party than Democrats were. In their final study, the researchers analyzed the speeches made by U.S. presidents of both parties between 1929 and 2023, spanning the period from the 31st president, Herbert Hoover, to the 46th, Joe Biden . The team found that during times of political polarization (such as during election periods), Republican presidents were more likely to speak in partisan terms—using terms such as "we" and "us"—than Democrat leaders were. "We acknowledge that the use of first-person plural (e.g., 'we') in speeches could sometimes refer to the U.S. citizenry as a whole rather than a partisan ingroup (Democrats or Republicans)," Zhu and Pechmann write in their paper. "But the U.S. citizenry is arguably another ingroup. Thus, it appears that conservatives are motivated to attain ingroup dominance given polarization, and liberals less so, possibly regardless of the ingroup," they said. "Republicans react to political polarization by putting out partisan misinformation," Pechmann said. "This can have a deleterious effect on the state of democratic institutions and processes." For example, the two researchers said, following misinformation on election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, 400 restrictive voting bills were introduced in 47 state legislatures. "Worse, 14 states passed restrictive voting bills that, for instance, shortened the mail-in voting period, eliminated election day registration and/or reduced ballot dropbox access," the researchers wrote. "These changes have decreased voter turnout and engagement, particularly among minority voters." The researchers have some suggestions for how the harmful effects of misinformation might be combated. Trying to dampen political polarization in the news and on social media would be an obvious approach—although an impractical one, the two say, given how polarization has marketplace benefits in boosting audience sizes, engagement and political donations. Alternatively, they suggest, more money might be invested in fact-checking. At present, this is a service largely performed by volunteer organizations with minimal resources. Greater support could allow fact-checkers to concentrate their efforts during periods of heightened political polarization, such as around elections. "Media literacy education can also be used to combat misinformation," the researchers wrote in their paper. At present, 18 states have introduced mandatory media literacy education to help students identify misinformation. It is estimated that 84 percent of U.S. adults support the introduction of media literacy into school curricula—even though only 38 percent of said adults had received such education themselves. "With polarization rising globally," the researchers conclude in their paper, "we hope our insights will help nations, communities and individuals better prepare for the effects on misinformation spread to preserve truth, trust and democracy." Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about misinformation? Let us know via science@newsweek.com . Reference Zhu, X., & Pechmann, C. (2025). Political Polarization Triggers Conservatives' Misinformation Spread to Attain Ingroup Dominance. Journal of Marketing , 89 (1), 39–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429241264997Have Robertinho’s Rayon proven their title credentials yet?From Wealth and Success to Murder Suspect, the Life of Luigi Mangione Took a Hard Turn
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