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Twitter has launched its new logo, dropping the blue bird on its website for an X as part of a wider rebranding, Aljazeera reported.

The social media network’s site on Monday showed the company’s new logo: a white X on a black background.

Twitter owner Elon Musk and its Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino unveiled the new logo for the social media network.

“X is here! Let’s do this,” tweeted Yaccarino, who also posted a picture of the logo projected on the company’s offices in San Francisco. The new logo is the latest change since Musk bought the social media platform for $44bn last year.

On Sunday, Twitter’s billionaire had said in a series of posts on his account that he us looking to make the change worldwide as soon as Monday, according to Aljazeera.

Musk tweeted: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”.

“#GoodbyeTwitter” was trending on the platform with reference to the old logo as several users criticised the new one.

Musk said on Sunday he wanted to change Twitter’s logo and polled his millions of followers on the platform on whether they would favour changing the site’s colour scheme from blue to black.

Under Musk’s tumultuous tenure since he bought Twitter in October 2022, the company has changed its business name to X Corp, reflecting his vision to create a “super app” like China’s WeChat.

Last October, he said that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”.

Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, is commonly known as SpaceX. And in 1999, Musk founded a startup called X.com, an online financial services company now known as PayPal.

Twitter is thought to have around 200 million daily active users, but it has suffered repeated technical failures since the tycoon bought the so-called bird app for $44bn in 2022 and sacked much of its staff, Aljazeera reported.

Since then, many users and advertisers alike have soured on the social media site due to charges introduced for previously free services, changes to content moderation, and the return of previously banned right-wing accounts.

Musk said earlier this month that Twitter has lost roughly half of its advertising revenue since he took control in October.

Facebook parent Meta earlier this month launched its own text-based platform, called Threads, which has up to 150 million users according to some estimates.

But the amount of time users spend on the rival app has plummeted in the weeks since its launch, according to data from market analysis firm Sensor Tower.

Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the Lalita Niwas land grab case.

SSP Dinesh Acharya of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) said that Sanjay Kumar Maharjan and Sakulananda Maharjan were apprehended after they were found involved in embezzling the land of Lalita Niwas by being fake tenants.

It has been found that both of them became fake tenants in 2002 and 2010.

With this, the number of people arrested in the Lalita Niwas lang grab case has reached 23.

Twenty persons including former election commissioner Sudhir Kumar Shah and Bhatbhateni Supermarket Chairman Min Bahaudr Gurung were arrested earlier in the Lalita Niwas scam.

A man allegedly killed his wife in Mahadev Rural Municipality of Saptari.

Ramrup Khang (35), a drug user, of Akawarpur, Mahadev Rural Municipality killed his wife Parbati Devi Khang (30) by attacking with an iron rod and a lathi, Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital said.

Her body has been kept at the same hospital for postmortem.

Ramrup's father and mother were also injured in the attack, Ram Charitra Khang said.

He attacked all the family members after they stopped him when he tried to leave the house by taking Rs 16, 000, locals said.

Ramrup, who was on the run after killing his wife, was later caught by the villagers. He has been handed over to the police.

Inspector Pramod Khadka said that preparations are underway to take action against him on the murder charge.

Ramrup’s mother Santoliya Devi Khang (62), who was critically injured in the attack, is being treated at the Rajbiraj-based Chinnamasta Hospital.

The BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan has additionally allotted 30 beds dedicated to the treatment of dengue.

The 30-bed dengue ward came into operation on Sunday.

Now, Dharan Sub-Metropolis in Sunsari and adjoining areas are in a grip of dengue fever.

As the number of dengue cases continues to rise in Sunsari and the surrounding areas, the existing medical facilities at BPKIHS, such as the 'central emergency' and the 'dengue clinic,' are no longer sufficient to handle the situation, according to BPKIHS acting vice-chancellor Prof Dr Prahlad Karki.

In the past two days, the 50-bed 'observation ward' has been largely occupied by dengue patients.  

Eighty-five percent of beds in the ward are occupied by dengue patients.  The emergency ward in the hospital received 60-75 dengue cases each day.