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Prayagraj (UP): "All of you are the golden future of the 'new <keyword id="19894922" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uttar-pradesh" source="keywords">Uttar Pradesh</keyword>'. With such hard work, dedication and patience, I wish that all of you succeed in every test of life. May the blessings of Maa Sharada always remain upon you all!," he said in a post in Hindi on X. The board exams were held between February 22 and March 9 at 8,265 centres. The answer papers were checked between March 16 and 30, board officials said. "Prachi Nigam of Sitapur district was the <keyword id="19951608" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Class-10" source="keywords">Class 10</keyword> topper with 98.50 per cent marks. Shubham Verma, also from Sitapur, stood first in the <keyword id="19981413" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Class-12" source="keywords">Class 12</keyword> exam with 97.80 per cent," Education (Secondary) Director Mahendra Dev told PTI. The board conducted the examination in a "record-breaking" number of days, Dev said. "For the first time, the exam was conducted in a record 12 working days. The evaluation of answer sheets was completed in the same number of working days," he added. The officer said 27,49,364 (27.49 lakh) candidates -- 14,39,243 (14.39 lakh) boys and 13,10,121 (13.10 lakh) girls -- appeared for the Class 10 exam. Of the total, 86.05 per cent boys and 93.40 per cent girls cleared the exam. For Class 12, the number of candidates was 24,52,830 (24.52 lakh) -- 13,41,356 (13.41 lakh) boys and 11,11,474 (11.11 lakh) girls, Dev said. The pass percentage was 77.78 for boys and 88.42 for girls.

UP board exam results announced, CM Adityanath congratulates successful candidates

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Class X results on Monday. The overall <keyword id="20123359" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="pass-percentage" source="keywords">pass percentage</keyword> of 93.60 per cent was recorded. Passing percentage has increased by 0.48 per cent since last year. 25724 schools gave the CBSE class X examinations at 7603 centres. The Trivandrum region registered the highest pass percentage at 99.75 per cent whereas the lowest has been recorded at Guwahati which stood at 77.94 per cent. In the overall Delhi region, a 98.61 per cent pass percentage was recorded. 94.75 per cent of Girls passed the exam whereas 92.71 per cent of boys passed the exam with the Girls outshining boys by 2.04 per cent. Students who sat for the CBSE Class 10 board exams nationwide can view their mark sheets on the <keyword id="21637011" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="CBSE-official-website" source="keywords">CBSE official website</keyword>, cbse.gov.in. The other official websites where CBSE 10th results can be checked are - cbseresults.nic.in, results.cbse.nic.in, cbse.nic.in, digilocker.gov.in, results.gov.in. The results can also be checked on mobile apps- Digilocker and UMANG. In regards to the Class 10 exams, CBSE stated that Science, Mathematics, and Social Science were chosen by 22,62,692 students each. These exams took place over three days at 7612 examination centres, utilising 94,279 rooms, with the assistance of 1,88,558 Assistant Superintendents. CBSE class X examinations were held from February 15 to March 13, 2024. Approximately 39 lakh students appeared for Class 10 and 12 examinations. Students must score a minimum of 33 per cent marks to pass the CBSE class 10 and 12 exams. Looking at the past year's trends, in 2023, the CBSE results were announced on May 12. While in the year 2022, it was declared on July 22. Earlier, CBSE declared Class XII. 87.98 per cent of students passed the board exams. Passing percentage increased by 0.65 per cent since last year. 18417 schools gave the CBSE class XII examinations at 7126 centres. This year the overall pass percentage is 87.98 a 0.65 percent increase since 2023. The Trivandrum region registered the highest pass percentage at 99.91 per cent. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/aadhar-housing-finance-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/110071990.cms">Aadhar Housing Finance IPO allotment – How to check allotment, GMP, listing date and more</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/webstories/ipl-decoded-highest-individual-scores-in-ipl-2024-so-far-from-stoinis-to-kohli/slidelist/110008351.cms">IPL Decoded: Highest individual scores in IPL 2024 so far, from Stoinis to Kohli</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/indian-smartphone-market-up-8-5g-smartphones-account-for-over-70-of-shipments/articleshow/110002512.cms">Indian smartphone market up 8%, 5G smartphones account for over 70% of shipments</a>

CBSE Class 10 board exam results declared

Over 65 lakh students did not pass <keyword id="19951608" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="class-10" source="keywords">class 10</keyword> and 12 <keyword id="19954615" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="board-exams" source="keywords">board exams</keyword> across the country last year with the failure rate being higher in <keyword id="22866974" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="state-boards" source="keywords">state boards</keyword> than the central board, according to Ministry of Education (<keyword id="20349630" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="MoE" source="keywords">MoE</keyword>) officials. An analysis of class 10 and 12 results of 59 school boards, including 56 state boards and three national boards, revealed that more girls appeared in class 12 exam from government-managed schools but it is opposite in private schools and government-aided schools. "Around 33.5 lakh students of class 10 are not reaching next grade. While 5.5 lakh candidates did not appear, 28 lakh failed. This is one of the cause for low retention rate and Gross Enrolment Ration (GER) at higher secondary level," a senior MoE official said. Similarly, around 32.4 lakh class 12 students did not complete the grade. While 5.2 lakh did not appear, 27.2 lakh failed. In class 10, the student failure rate in central board stood at 6 per cent while that of state boards was much higher at 16 per cent. In class 12, the failure rate at central board is 12 per cent while that of state boards is 18 per cent. The ministry officials noted that the open school performance was poor in both the classes. The highest number of student failure in class 10 was in Madhya Pradesh board followed by Bihar and UP. While in class 12, the highest student failure was reported from Uttar Pradesh followed by Madhya Pradesh. "Overall performance of students in 2023 declined in comparison with previous year. This could be due to larger syllabus for examination," the official said. More girls appeared for class 10 and 12 board exams from government schools than boys. "This may reflect gender bias while spending on education by parents. However, girls dominates in pass performance across government, aided and private schools," the official said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/reliance-jio-and-airtel-gained-over-3-million-subscribers-in-june-vi-lost-nearly-a-million/articleshow/112670406.cms">Reliance Jio and Airtel gained over 3 million subscribers in June, Vi lost nearly a million</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/the-iphone-pro-models-will-be-made-in-india-for-the-first-time-this-year/articleshow/112653019.cms">The iPhone Pro models will be made in India for the first time this year</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/webstories/orient-technologies-ipo-price-band-to-risk-factors-all-you-need-to-know/slidelist/112646237.cms">Orient Technologies IPO – Price band to risk factors, all you need to know</a>

Over 65 lakh students failed class 10, 12 exams in 2023; higher failure rate in state boards: MoE

Girls have again outshone boys in the <keyword id="19976140" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="CBSE" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="CBSE" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="CBSE">CBSE</keyword> Class 12 <keyword id="19954615" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="board-exams" source="keywords">board exams</keyword>, results for which were declared on Monday with 87.98 per cent students passing the test. Last year, the total pass percentage was 87.33 per cent. Officials said 91.52 per cent girls cleared the <keyword id="19957604" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="exam" source="keywords">exam</keyword>, 6.40 percentage points higher than boys' pass percentage. "A total of 24,068 students have scored above 95 per cent marks while 1,16,145 students have scored above 90 per cent," an official said. More than 1.22 lakh candidates have been placed in 'compartment'. The number this year is slightly less than that of last year, the officials said. This time, more than 16.21 lakh candidates appeared for the exam which was conducted at 7,126 centres. SEE ALSO:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/aadhar-housing-finance-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/110071990.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/aadhar-housing-finance-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/110071990.cms" target="_blank">Aadhar Housing Finance IPO allotment – How to check allotment, GMP, listing date and more</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/webstories/ipl-decoded-highest-individual-scores-in-ipl-2024-so-far-from-stoinis-to-kohli/slidelist/110008351.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/webstories/ipl-decoded-highest-individual-scores-in-ipl-2024-so-far-from-stoinis-to-kohli/slidelist/110008351.cms" target="_blank">IPL Decoded: Highest individual scores in IPL 2024 so far, from Stoinis to Kohli</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/indian-smartphone-market-up-8-5g-smartphones-account-for-over-70-of-shipments/articleshow/110002512.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/indian-smartphone-market-up-8-5g-smartphones-account-for-over-70-of-shipments/articleshow/110002512.cms" target="_blank">Indian smartphone market up 8%, 5G smartphones account for over 70% of shipments</a>

CBSE Class 12 results: 87.98% students pass exams, girls outshine boys

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Experts have been weighing in on why Donald Trump won the US election.</li><li>They pointed to Trump's strength on immigration and the economy and a global trend of voters punishing incumbents.</li></ul>There's been an avalanche of analysis following Donald Trump's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-wins-presidential-election-race-2024-11">victory</a> in the US presidential election on Wednesday, as experts <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/global-reaction-donald-trump-election-victory-tariffs-trade-disputes-2024-11">sought</a> to explain how the former president won a second term.They've offered a variety of reasons, ranging from a populist revolt against the elites to Vice President Kamala Harris' shortcomings as the Democratic candidate.Here is some of the best commentary we've seen.<h2 id="1dbed9eb-71c4-4a2e-b020-55984ea68b7b">Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins University</h2>Hanke, professor of applied economics and former advisor to President Ronald Reagan, told Business Insider in an email: "The American voters have reacted negatively to the American elites who run the show in Washington, the media and so on and so forth. The election outcome was a revolt against the elites."<div type="image" title="Steve Hanke" height="2056" width="2876" msid="115028997" hostid="261" sizebytes="273344"></div><h2 id="a482e781-ed5e-4036-8353-8bd7360cc37a">Nate Cohn, chief political analyst at The New York Times</h2>"<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/upshot/trump-election-victory.html">Trump gained across the board</a> — including among the voters who seemed most skeptical of him eight years ago, from Hispanic voters in New York City to technology workers in San Francisco."None of this is what Democrats would have imagined a decade ago, when many of them assumed that demographic and generational change would bring a new Democratic majority. Instead, many of the voters whom Democrats viewed as the bedrock of their coalition grew so frustrated with the status quo that they decided to back Mr. Trump instead."<h2 id="7d3e8588-71be-466f-bbca-862acc528256">Tina Fordham, independent strategist and advisor</h2><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-electionsbeyond-market-euphoriatrump-20-policy-bingo-tina-fordham-zzd3f/">"Trump's victory</a> is the most powerful example this year of a political and economic environment that has been brutal for incumbents around the world and brought home the fact that inflation is political kryptonite."This lesson will not soon be lost on governments — growth is not enough if prices are high and wages perceived to not keep pace. The dividing lines in US politics remain bright along geographical, educational, and gender lines, with Trump's strongest support coming from working-class men. This result will leave many Americans not only angry, but fearful.:On a global level, there is no getting away from the fact that Trump's victory will be transformational for both the US and the international system, with geopolitical and economic risks heightened."<h2 id="0f48b608-bdb9-4161-81db-e972ee4a57dc">Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of the Silver Bulletin newsletter</h2>Silver republished a lengthy post from late October titled "<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.natesilver.net/p/24-reasons-that-trump-could-win">24 reasons that Trump won.</a>"Those reasons included inflation, negative perceptions of the economy and nostalgia for Trump's first term, sluggish wage growth, a cultural shift to the right, disillusionment among male and minority voters, and Harris' late nomination.Among Silver's other reasons were Trump's skill at convincing voters he's on their side and success in appealing to marginal voting groups; the Israel-Hamas war dividing the Democratic base; the assassination attempts on Trump boosting his favorability; and Harris' failure to explain her shift from left wing to moderate or articulate a clear vision for America.<div type="image" title="Nate Silver " height="2910" width="3978" msid="115028996" hostid="261" sizebytes="926368"></div><h2 id="cd87b061-0a72-4442-9fe7-4573c9e4074c">Matthew Yglesias, author of the Slow Boring newsletter</h2>"I think 'don't nominate women' would be the worst possible takeaway from this," Yglesias <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1854158785192907052">wrote on X</a>. "Lots of women overperform electorally, and since most Democrats are women if you become biased against nominating them you will cut the party off from talent. Learn from the ones who win!""Trump has made a lot of impossible and oft-contradictory promises and will have problems," Yglesias said in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1854058474394566939">another X post</a>. He added in a follow-up tweet: "One obvious one is that Trump managed to both reassure a healthy slice of people about abortion rights while also retaining the enthusiastic support of people who really want to ban abortion. Hard needle to thread!"<h2 id="30bc6c65-8e3c-4fee-aad3-f93e66143c0d">Dominic Sandbrook, historian, commentator and author</h2>Sandbrook told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyIAJCWVxA">The Rest is Politics podcast</a> that Kamala Harris failed to win sufficient support from female, Latino and Black voters, while Donald Trump had a "history of outperforming the polls … particularly in rural areas and the South and the suburbs." He argued that Harris and Hillary Clinton had similar weaknesses, with a proportion of the electorate unwilling to consider a female commander in chief.Many voters were also "suspicious" of a mixed-race woman from California who "appears to be the embodiment of, for want of a better expression, the metropolitan liberal elite," Sandbrook said.<h2 id="765cb88d-3d89-4393-acb3-cb2304fdb96c">Eric Corellessa, national political correspondent at TIME</h2>"The <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://time.com/7172052/how-donald-trump-won-2024/">Democrats' hasty replacement</a> of the first-term president with Harris deprived them of a better-tested candidate who could potentially have rallied broader support. Voters took Trump's own advanced age and increasingly incoherent trail rhetoric in stride. Much of the country read Trump's legal woes as part of a larger corrupt conspiracy to deny him, and them, power. And he benefited from a global restiveness in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has ousted incumbent leaders around the world."Whenever abortion came up, Trump insisted the issue was now up to the states, and pivoted as much as possible to the economy, immigration, and crime—issues the campaign believed triggered anxiety with well-to-do suburban women who were open to backing him."Musk also turned X, his social-media platform, into a cauldron of conspiracy theories and characterized the stakes of the race to his more than 200 million followers as existential."

These 7 experts explain why Trump won, Harris lost — and what the election result means

<ul class="summary-list"><li>United Polaris had everything I needed to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flight-attendants-tips-surviving-long-haul-flights-2023-5">feel comfortable on a long-haul flight</a>.</li><li>The service was great and the lie-flat seats were comfortable.</li></ul>I've flown business and first class on several airlines, but I didn't know what to expect on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flying-on-united-polaris-great-game-changer-2023-8">United Polaris</a> from Newark, New Jersey, to Rome.I'd seen online that the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/united-polaris.html">"reimagined"</a> business class had comfy seats and great perks. When it first debuted seven years ago, it was even a finalist for the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/its-crystal-clear-united-airlines-is-revolutionizing-the-business-class-experience-300419621.html">Crystal Cabin Awards</a>, an international award for cabin design innovation.Still, I wanted to try it out for myself and I'd scored a discounted rate. My eight-hour flight on United Polaris cost $2,049 — about half of what it typically would have. Here's what my flight was like.<h2 id="dd1f3acb-2f15-4aaa-8bdf-4a323623283d">United Polaris had everything I needed for a long flight</h2><div type="image" title="United Polaris seat stacked with blankets and amenity kit next to image of open amenity kit" height="900" width="1200" msid="112573625" hostid="261" sizebytes="123880"></div>After boarding the plane, I learned my flight was delayed. I didn't mind since I had a glass of wine and could get cozy. My pod contained Saks Fifth Avenue bedding, including a lightweight blanket, comforter, full-sized pillow, and small memory-foam cushion.Polaris seats lie flat and have aisle access. A set of controls reclines the seat, raises the leg rest, and adjusts the lumbar support.<div type="image" title="Buttons to adjust light and seat on United Polaris " height="2268" width="4032" msid="112573628" hostid="261" sizebytes="243318"></div>I'm 5'7" and had plenty of space to sit comfortably and lay fully flat.A cabinet next to the armrest contained bottled water, a noise-canceling headset, and a large mirror. I also had USB ports, outlets for electronics, and a pop-out hook in case I wanted to hang anything up.My ticket also came with an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amenity-kits-united-delta-american-airlines-first-class-economy-coach-2019-12">amenity kit</a> designed to look like a small piece of luggage. It contained socks, tissues, a sleep mask, a toothbrush, and a few other items.For entertainment, I had a 16-inch screen with United's international selection of movies, TV shows, podcasts, and music. Plus, my seat had a personal lamp and mini spotlight that were perfect to use for reading a book in a darkened cabin.<h2 id="79240c3d-e702-4165-892e-d64d0a734dd1">The bathrooms for Polaris passengers were large and stocked with specialty toiletries</h2><div type="image" title="Bathroom in United Polaris class " height="2094" width="3722" msid="112573626" hostid="261" sizebytes="384484"></div>There was never a line to get into one of two reserved Polaris bathrooms. Each had a sizable vanity with a full wash basin instead of the thin slice of sink found in most airplane toilets.<div type="image" title="Sprays in bathroom on United flight " height="2165" width="3849" msid="112573631" hostid="261" sizebytes="485844"></div>A countertop held a trio of bottles filled with hand cream, face mist, and a fabric-refresher spray — a now-favorite amenity I never knew I needed.<h2 id="9c45b4ec-0ecf-4f49-a9a3-6d5cad8e013f">The food was not as good as I'd hoped</h2><div type="image" title="Food on tray on United Polaris flight" height="1462" width="1348" msid="112573633" hostid="261" sizebytes="209724"></div>In Polaris, food was delivered on real plates — not disposable ones — alongside flatware and glassware. Fortunately, my pod's foldout table had plenty of room for my meals and free-flowing drinks.I had an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-sleeps-on-redeye-flights-overnight-trains-tips-2023-12">overnight flight</a>, so a multicourse dinner was served about an hour after takeoff. I could choose one of four entrées: braised beef short rib with mushrooms, chicken and potatoes, turbot fish with kale, and spaghetti squash with zucchini.I chose the short rib, and unfortunately, I felt it was overheated and got a little tough as it got cool enough to eat. It tasted like typical, salty airplane fare to me. I'd hoped my <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/review-flying-business-class-first-time-klm-worth-it-2024-8">business-class dinner</a> would be more impressive. For dessert, I got a vanilla ice-cream sundae with chocolate fudge and brownie crumble that was pretty good.My final meal on board was breakfast, about two hours before landing. I had a choice of an open-faced bagel with salmon, cream cheese, and chives or Belgian waffles with nuts and fruit.I chose the bagel, and I appreciated getting a hearty meal before deboarding and starting the next step of my journey to downtown Rome.<h2 id="bb3a287e-b85e-4f66-876a-9815ccfe83e5">My flight was great, but only trips over 10 hours justify the cost of Polaris</h2>I enjoyed my flight on Polaris, but even with a delay, it didn't last long enough. With a strong tailwind, I was in Rome before I knew it, still feeling the wine I had upon boarding.Between dinner and breakfast service, I had about three hours to wind down and relax. I enjoyed the comfortable seats, luxurious bedding, specialty toiletries, and superior service from the staff.But although the upscale perks were nice, I wouldn't upgrade to United Polaris on a relatively short, eight-hour flight like this again.It's a luxury I'd reserve for <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/foot-hammock-best-item-packed-10-hour-economy-flight-2024-7">flights over 10 hours</a> — and probably only if I could get another discounted rate.

I spent over $2,000 to fly United Polaris, a 'reimagined' business class. It's only worth it for trips over 10 hours.

<keyword id="19895433" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tesla" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Tesla" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Tesla">Tesla</keyword> is on the brink again. Sales are slowing even after the company slashed prices. The company is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-layoffs-job-cuts-2024-2">laying off 10% of its workforce</a> — 14,000 workers from Shanghai to San Jose, from the factory floor to the executive suite. The company had to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-recalls-cybertrucks-accelerator-fault-pad-pedal-electric-vehicle-truck-2024-4">recall every single Cybertruck</a> it shipped. And Tesla's position in China, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-electric-cars-ev-elon-musk-tesla-byd-price-war-2024-4">a country that has become critical</a> to its future, is getting shakier.There's only one person to blame for the company's shambolic state and only one person whose exit could save Tesla: <keyword id="19903807" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Elon-Musk" source="keywords">Elon Musk</keyword>. For the past few years, Tesla has looked unstoppable, but during those high times, Musk failed to implement any strategy that would insulate the company from what has become a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-price-cuts-electric-cars-losing-business-strategy-2023-11">violent global electric-vehicle price war</a>. The company is incinerating cash, losing market share, and holding more aging inventory than ever before.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-tsla-quarterly-earnings-call-report-live-updates-2024-4">Tesla reported its first-quarter earnings</a> on Tuesday and missed expectations across the board, even though Wall Street was already expecting the worst. Earnings per share came in at $0.45, lower than analysts' expectations of $0.52. Free cash flow fell a stunning 674% as Tesla focused on AI research and making capital improvements. Gross profit fell 18% from the same time a year ago, and gross margins fell from 19.3% to 17.4% over the same period. If Tesla the company were a car, this is when you start to hear it make a rattling sound.The company's problem isn't a matter of getting through "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-podcast-workers-model-3-production-hell-sewage-sleeping-floor-2023-8">production hell</a>" or "delivery hell" on a new model, which Tesla has been able to survive. Hell is, at the very least, a location. Tesla's problem is that it has no clear direction. It doesn't matter how much cash a company has on hand if it's blowing it on products that aren't ready to scale — like a robotaxi. Or cars that no one wants — like its dated models.Musk seems to understand at least that much: For years, Tesla has teased the development of the Model 2 — a $25,000 Tesla for the everyman. This is the car the market wants, and a Reuters report from earlier this month that the Model 2 was being scrapped (which Musk denied) sent the stock into a tailspin. Given this clear signal from investors, the company pivoted and announced in its earnings release that it planned to speed up production of "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cheaper-teslas-arriving-sooner-than-planned-2024-4">new and more affordable products</a>" to early 2025. Wall Street ate this up: in spite of the miserable results, Tesla's stock has gained nearly 20% since the earnings announcement and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-investors-cheaper-cars-soon-musk-said-earnings-stock-up-2024-4">analysts were falling over themselves</a> to praise the news. It's like people have never seen this play from Musk before, but anyone who's been following Tesla knows we have.Musk is notorious for delivering so late that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-release-date-delivery-delay-signs-2023-9">any sort of timelines</a> are to be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-roadster">taken with a grain of salt</a>. Even Musk's most loyal shareholders — like Ross Gerber of investment firm Gerber Kawasaki — were dubious. In an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday after Tesla's report, Gerber said that he "can't rely" on what the company says about timelines anymore. In the company's post-earnings conference call, Musk only mentioned vague plans for speeding up the production process and spent more time talking about his far-off vision for an Uber-like robotaxi fleet."I'd say at least eight to nine years before they get a robotaxi working," Tu Le, the founder of the electric-vehicle consultancy Sino Auto Insights, told me in a recent interview. "I think they'd argue that they already made it. But I'm thinking about the best-case scenario. And I'm being very optimistic.Being late wasn't a problem when Tesla was the only company making good EVs, but that's not the case anymore. Musk does not have eight or nine years to save Tesla, and making vague promises to deliver a new car that the market actually wants — while appealing to Wall Street — does not relieve the pressures the company is facing now. On one side of the world, competitors in China can make <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-waging-price-war-against-chinese-rivals-2024-4">cars at a much lower cost</a>. On the other side, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-pulling-back-electric-vehicle-production-again-2024-4">legacy automakers</a> are leaning on their combustion-engine and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/car-buyer-interest-hybrids-as-electric-vehicle-adoption-slowing-2023-10">hybrid car sales</a> to make it through the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sales-miss-ev-slowdown-new-wave-customers-2024-4">slowdown in demand for electric cars</a>. If the Chinese market is a rock, then Western markets are a hard place. Tesla is caught in between. The company needs a serious leader with practical ideas — no self-driving gimmicks, no blowtorches, no broken Cybertrucks, no shitposting, no video-game marathons, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/psychedelics-work-microdosing-lsd-psilocybin-ketamine-retreats-elon-musk-2024-3">no casual ketamine use</a>. Basically, no Elon. It needs a singularly focused, ruthlessly productive leader who can deliver the Model 2 — without copious delays.On Tuesday, Musk addressed the recent round of layoffs by saying that Tesla needed to restructure itself for a "new phase of growth." He's right about that, the carmaker does need a major shake-up — starting with him.The future did not have to look this ugly for Tesla. In 2020, the company was on top of the world. Its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-china-gigafactory-shanghai-fremont-california-factory-2021-10">Shanghai plant started cranking out</a> lower-cost, higher-margin cars. It was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-germany-gigafactory-final-approval-2022-3">building a plant in Germany</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-gigafactory-texas-cyber-rodeo-2022-4">another one in Texas</a>. It <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-delivery-record-q2-annual-sales-2021-7">sold more cars</a> than ever before. Consistent annual profits led to a <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-market-cap-500-billion-stock-price-rally-elon-musk-2020-11-1029835478">glorious stock market rally</a>, and Wall Street rejoiced.What did Musk do with those glory days? He <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-sell-tesla-stock-buy-twitter-deal-net-worth-2023-4">sold a bunch of his Tesla stock</a> to buy Twitter, tried to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-to-take-elon-musk-court-fight-close-deal-2022-7">get out of the deal</a>, and then was forced to go through with it. He <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starship-launch-rocket-blows-up-explosion-elon-musk-mars-2023-11">blew up some rockets</a> (to be fair, some also made it to space). He <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-monkeys-live-in-paradise-denies-gruesome-deaths-2023-11">implanted a brain chip</a> into a bunch of monkeys. He brought a kitchen sink to work and added a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-ceo-job-broken-chief-hypocrisy-officer-2022-11">few more CEO jobs to his plate</a>. He publicly bungled Gov. Ron DeSantis' attempt to launch a presidential campaign. At Tesla, Musk delivered about 4,000 Cybertrucks — every one of which has been recalled for faulty acceleration — while frittering away any goodwill the company has with its core customers.What I'm saying is that as much as Tesla accomplished in the past few years, it's clear Musk should've spent more time with it. Tesla failed to craft a strategy for chaotic times in what is still clearly a nascent EV industry. Sure, the company has been on a multiyear campaign to get lean and cut costs, but that strategy isn't enough to balance out price cuts, weak demand, and the need for major capital expenditures to get through this period of fleet stagnation. A true visionary CEO — which Musk has long claimed to be — would have pressed the advantage that Tesla developed in the EV market. They would've done research to try to understand what EV demand would look like after early adopters bought cars. They'd know what kinds of buyers would enter the market at that stage and which kinds of cars those buyers would want. A true visionary CEO would meet those customers where they are. Back in November, I spoke with Navdeep Sodhi, a pricing analyst at Sodhi Pricing Associates, who told me that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-price-cuts-electric-cars-losing-business-strategy-2023-11">Tesla should advertise</a> to educate the public about the cost benefits of its cars, like savings on gas. Advertising could have also helped assuage concerns about issues like range anxiety. This month, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-new-marketing-team-advertising-cut-layoffs-2024-4">Tesla laid off its entire marketing team</a>.For years analysts warned Musk that competition was coming, not just from legacy automakers but from the very Chinese market that fostered Tesla's success. Beijing has a pattern of supporting Western companies in China's markets in order to foster competition, then, once China-based rivals are able to catch up, tipping the scales in favor of homegrown companies. Add in the fact that Beijing has cornered nearly every aspect of the battery supply chain — from mining and refining metals to manufacturing the batteries themselves — which has helped China's EV makers to churn out models at price points as low as four figures. The new options have put Tesla on the back foot in one of its most important markets: <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-vehicle-model-y-price-cuts-tsla-elon-musk-2024-4">Tesla's share of China's car market shrank</a> to 6.7% in the fourth quarter of 2023 from 10.3% at the beginning of the year.To maintain its lead, Tesla should have been singularly focused on building the Model 2 — moving down the pricing scale to where there were more customers. But it stopped innovating, the Model 2 hasn't materialized, and Musk's realization that the company needs to actually deliver on a Tesla-for-the-people may be coming too late. Instead of boosting sales with an impressive or accessible new option, Tesla has tried to goose demand by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-slashes-prices-suv-cars-self-driving-software-before-earnings-2024-4">erratically lowering the prices</a> of its existing models to increase volume. This has not worked as planned: automotive revenue fell 13% from the same time last year, according to Tuesday's earnings release, and gross margins in the automotive division fell to 14.8% from 18% a year before.Tesla has always been a "growth" company, the up-and-coming player taking on the legacy automakers. But now the company has entered a new stage of development — it's a large, mature firm, and continuing to grow requires larger amounts of capital, discipline, and focus. There was never a moment for Musk to rest on his laurels, but after 2020 Tesla started to look less like a place where Musk was constantly innovating and more like a place where Musk sourced cash to do whatever else he wanted with his life. Maybe he got bored, or maybe he got distracted — either way, Musk stopped pushing the envelope at Tesla way too early.During the conference call, Musk had a million excuses for why this quarter was so poor — Houthi agitation in the Red Sea, an arson in Berlin, updates at the Fremont Factory. He asserted that Tesla was not a car company but rather an AI robotics company. He spoke ad nauseam about turning Tesla into a self-driving Uber service but refused to answer any questions about the Model 2. Look over here. Look over there. Pay no attention to exactly how we're going to deliver his cheaper car. Wall Street has fallen for this before, and it's becoming embarrassing that it has fallen for it again — especially at a time when Tesla and the EV market are in such a different position. The gestures toward actually producing the Model 2 drove a post-earnings stock pop, but given Musk's years of distraction and myriad projects, shareholders should be more concerned that he may fritter away Tesla's resources on something else — whether that's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-luring-more-investors-spv-high-fees">an AI that can copy his voice</a>, turning X into a dating app for libertarians, or building another vanity clown car. If the Model 2 doesn't come ASAP, it's tantamount to Tesla waving the white flag in the global EV wars for the foreseeable future. Forget growth — now the company that should have been America's EV juggernaut needs to figure out survival.When Musk entered the EV Thunderdome, Tesla was the only game in town, interest rates were at 0%, and most of the country was convinced he was Iron Man. Since then, China has become an EV power player, legacy automakers have been trying to get a cut of the action, debt has become more expensive, and half the country has started to think Musk is Lex Luthor. Things have changed, and Tesla's leadership needs to change along with them or get left behind.<a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/linette-lopez">Linette Lopez</a> is a senior correspondent at Business Insider.

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New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): The mammoth exercise to count votes polled for the Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections will begin at 8 am on Tuesday, with trends and results following shortly thereafter. Results of the <keyword id="6372146" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Assembly-elections" source="Orion">Assembly elections</keyword> in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh were held simultaneously with voting for the 543-member Lok Sabha. Results of 175 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 147 Assembly constituencies in Odisha and results of bypolls in 25 Assembly constituencies will also be declared today. Here're the LIVE results: <div type="javascript" title="Custom" contenttype="Infographic"><cdata><![CDATA[]]></cdata></div> Strict security has been put in place for the smooth conduct of counting of votes for over 8,000 candidates in this general elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will seek a third consecutive term in government, while the Congress-led opposition aims to unseat them. Most <keyword id="43771" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="exit-polls" source="Orion">exit polls</keyword> have predicted a return of PM Modi to power, a development which will make him the first Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to secure a third successive term in power, Meanwhile, a delegation of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc leaders met with the Election Commission of India urging it to ensure that postal ballots are counted and their results declared before the outcome of the EVMs is announced. Earlier, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had said that a "very robust system" has been put in place. "There are around 10.5 lakh booths. Each booth will have 14 tables. There are observers and micro-observers. Nearly, 70-80 lakh people are involved in the process," he said. The national capital is all set to witness the battle. With tight security arrangements in place, Delhi is well-prepared to watch the results of the 2024 <keyword id="19923279" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha-Elections" source="keywords">Lok Sabha elections</keyword>. Around 70 companies of the security forces will be deployed at all seven counting centres across the national capital as part of the elaborate security arrangements made by the Delhi Police for today. Delhi traffic police issued a fresh advisory ahead of the counting of votes scheduled for Tuesday, listing key roads where traffic restrictions and diversions will start from 5 am onwards to ensure smooth vehicular movement. Prime Minister Modi's hometown, Gujarat, is also preparing for the vote-counting day as security forces rehearse and perform drills for the effortless conduct of D-day. Exit polls have predicted the return of the BJP to power. Various exit polls have given the BJP more than 64 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is poised for a hat-trick win in Lok Sabha polls with a massive majority. Exit polls were predicted on Saturday and indicated that the ruling party at the Centre would improve its performance in several states ruled by other parties. A few exit polls predicted that the BJP-led NDA could reach the goal of "400 paar" stated by BJP leaders in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. The exit polls predicted that the ruling BJP-led NDA is poised to improve its performance over its 2019 record when it won 352 seats. Two polls predicted the BJP would also improve its numbers from the 303 seats it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In the 2019 elections, NDA wrested 353 seats, of which the BJP won 303 alone. The Opposition's UPA got only 93 seats of which the Congress got 52. The Lok Sabha elections were conducted in seven phases- on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. The counting trends and results, as per data entered by RO/ARO for AC/PC will be available on the ECI website as well as on the Voter Helpline App, both iOS and Android Mobile Apps, according to the ECI. The Voter Helpline App can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple Play Store. Users can use the available filter to find out the winning/leading or trailing candidate details, along with the constituency-wise or State-wise results from the Voter Helpline App. The local display of the trends and results by the CEOs/ROs/DEOs may also be done through the Digital Display Panels, it said.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Real estate experts told BI that the office sector will experience a wave of distress in coming years.</li><li>Run-down, vacant offices could be sold in fire sales as owners cut their losses.</li></ul>A <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/commercial-real-estate-big-trouble-crash-bank-crisis-2024-2">seismic event is brewing in a corner of the commercial real estate market</a>, with many office buildings facing distress as they approach a wall of maturing debt and struggle against enduring work-from-home trends.Those factors — which have left some of the worst office buildings nearly deserted — are about to spark a handful of fire sales, potentially kicking off a wave of office-to-apartment conversions that will add more housing supply to the pipeline, real estate pros said.Richard Barkham, the chief global economist of commercial real estate investment firm CBRE, says he sees an upheaval of Class B office buildings — a segment of office properties that struggle to attract tenants, mainly due to being older and in need of renovation.These second-tier properties have vacancy rates as high as 80%, he said, predicting that many could be ripped down or transformed over the next decade."The banks are going to have to dispose of that real estate," Barkham told Business Insider in an interview. "So we will see. I think over the next — and this will pay out over two to three years — I think we'll see a wave of offices going back to banks, and I say, they'll be firesold and either demolished or converted."That chain reaction already looks to be in the works, with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/commercial-real-estate-debt-crisis-credit-crunch-bank-loans-default-2023-8">banks quietly shedding</a> troubled office properties from their balance sheets and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nyc-office-buildings-towers-became-housing-2023-9">conversions</a> starting to trickle into the mix.The <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CREACBW027SBOG">total amount of commercial real estate loans</a> held by commercial banks declined to $2.9 trillion, down from a peak of $3 trillion earlier this year.Large banks have been pulling back on lending to the sector, with 74% saying they tightened <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMREPUSQ159N">standards for nonresidential commercial real estate loans</a> in the second quarter of 2024, Federal Reserve data shows.Meanwhile, the number of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/adaptive-reuse-office-to-apartments-2024/#:~:text=From%20Boardrooms%20to%20Bedrooms%3A%20A,Conversions%20Expected%20in%20Major%20Cities&amp;text=From%202021%20to%202024%2C%20the,increased%20from%2012%2C100%20to%2055%2C300.">office spaces scheduled to be converted into apartments</a> rose to 55,000 in 2024 — the highest number of office-to-apartment conversions recorded in four years, and a 357% increase from levels recorded in 2021, according to Yardi Matrix data cited by RentCafe.John Vavas, a real estate finance attorney at Polsinelli who works with commercial real estate lenders, has worked on a handful of office-to-residential conversion deals this year. He had never worked on that kind of deal prior to the pandemic, he said. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/economy/spotlight/office-sector-in-commercial-real-estate-lending.html">Offices account for around 20%</a> of the square footage of all CRE properties, and the worst-performing buildings account for around 10% of the total office supply, Barkham estimated.There's around <a target="_blank" href="https://www.yardimatrix.com/Publications/Download/File/6080-MatrixOfficeNationalReport-August2024?eml=jsor%40businessinsider.com&amp;frm=4&amp;key=86DF904366A655EFD483DCB636266BC4922525FA">1.2 billion square feet worth of office space</a> that could be spun into residential space, Yardi said in a separate report.A CBRE analysis of planned, ongoing, and completed office-to-residential conversions since 2016 estimates that 1.38 billion square feet worth of office space could be converted. Barkham said the evolution could take around a decade to fully take place in cities.To be sure, these kinds of conversions are costly and difficult. In New York, architects have <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nyc-office-buildings-towers-became-housing-2023-9">cut holes in skyscrapers to rearrange square footage</a>, and Silverstein Properties, one of New York's largest commercial landlords, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-new-york-developer-is-spending-15-billion-to-turn-offices-to-apartments-2022-12">is spending $1.5 billion</a> to convert some of its office buildings. Still, for landlords facing a glut of unwanted space, it could be worth it to try to covert it. "There's a solid base of really badly performing offices that's going to go bust over the course of 2025," Barkham added. "It's quite clear that we don't need as much office space in the United States as we did."<h2 id="5bc9d833-39a3-40c9-a071-6c0d943a3acd">The office market's new era</h2>While most high-quality buildings are being filled, demand for offices has generally sagged since the pandemic, when remote work became much more widespread. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.commercialedge.com/blog/national-office-report/#:~:text=The%20national%20average%20full%2Dservice,Diego's%20by%20310%20basis%20points.">US office vacancy rate was 19.4%</a> in August, according to the data provider CommercialEdge, up 200 basis points from the prior year.<a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCRELEXFACBS">Late payments on commercial real estate loans</a> have climbed to 1.42% in the second quarter, the highest rate in nearly 10 years. <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMREPUSQ159N#0">Commercial real estate prices</a>, meanwhile, dropped another 9% year-over-year in the first quarter, Fed data shows.But real estate investors have warmed up to the sector over the past six months, Vavas says, thanks partly to buildings being sold at steep discounts and banks attempting to dump loans from their balance sheets. He recalls a deal he worked on recently, where the property owner priced the building at a 20%-30% discount."The people who owned it, the building was heavily vacant and they just wanted to, I think, cut their losses," he said.Many defunct offices are expected to be converted into residential properties given the shortage of housing in the US, Vavas says. The office-to-residential conversion is the most common type of conversion project, according to Yardi data, accounting for 38% of all conversions in the works."The idea of people being in the office three days a week versus five days a week was the exception, not the standard. And now it's the opposite," Vavas said. "If you do that across a company, by definition, your demand is going to drop. And when it drops as a result of this post-pandemic thought of being back in the office, then I think you have to start to look at, well, I have this space. What are the needs for the community, for the location? And in New York, it just happens to be residential."Washington DC, New York City, Dallas, Chicago, and Los Angeles have recorded the most office-to-apartment conversion starts this year, with a combined 19,462 conversions in the pipeline, Yardi data shows.Commutes will likely be shorter on average, and cities with many vacant offices could see more stores, restaurants, and theaters creep into the mix, Barkham says. He notes, though, that changes won't happen overnight."You will see vacant buildings, and you will see see-through offices for some considerable time," Barkham said.

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The <keyword id="6356155" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cbse" source="Orion">CBSE</keyword> on Friday declared the Class 12 results with 87.33 per cent of students clearing the exam, a dip of 5.38 per cent from last year. There will be no merit list to "avoid unhealthy competition", the board announced. The board has also decided to scrap awarding first, second and third divisions based on students' scores, officials said. "No merit list will be declared by the CBSE to avoid unhealthy competition among students. However, the board will issue merit certificates to 0.1 per cent of students who have scored the highest marks in the various subjects," a senior board official said. The pass percentage is higher than the 83.40 recorded in 2019 in the pre-Covid period, the official added. The pass percentage last year was 92.71. Girls continued to outshine boys, recording a six percentage point higher passing rate. Over 16.60 lakh students appeared for the Class 12 examination. The Trivandrum region recorded the highest pass percentage at 99.91 while the Prayagraj region reported the lowest at 78.05. Over 1.25 lakh students have been placed in the compartment category. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/news/top-10-fastest-fifties-in-ipl-history/slidelist/100126211.cms">Yashasvi Jaiswal scores the fastest IPL fifty – here are the top 10 fastest IPL fifties</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/whatsapp-is-cracking-down-on-international-scam-calls-after-indias-it-ministry-takes-notice/articleshow/100177253.cms">WhatsApp is cracking down on international scam calls after India’s IT ministry takes notice</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/android-14-beta-2-announced-features-eligible-devices-and-how-to-download/articleshow/100155614.cms">Android 14 Beta 2 announced – features, eligible devices, and how to download</a>

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