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 Eid-ul-Fitr means clothes, everyone collects new clothes. Many people now share the joy of Eid through clothes. Every Eid, Fashion Easy comes with bahari design clothes. The currently popular brand ‘Easy’ of the domestic fashion industry has always tried to bring a touch of innovation to the clothes. This time also on the occasion of Eid, Easy has already appeared with numerous new designs and colorful all casual shirts, formal shirts, T-shirts, polo-shirts, short and long Punjabi, pants, Punjabi, Kuti, Kabli Punjabi. Easy’s new collection is available in every showroom. On Eid, everyone wants to present themselves a little neat. So everyone’s attention is on fashionable clothes. Easy’s outlets are colorfully decorated with attractive clothes and fashion accessories this Eid. All types of boys clothing are available at Easy. Easy has 80 showrooms across the country including Dhaka.

 Like every year, North South University Social Services Club (NSU SSC) has held its annual event, “Blood Donation Drive 2023” on the North South University campus with the intent to prevent deaths caused by the scarcity of blood and motivate youths to donate blood.

It lasted three days from March 19th to March 21st, 2023. This year the event has been successfully conducted with the collaboration of the recognized organization “Bangladesh Thalassemia Foundation and Samity”. The complete blood collection procedure was carried out under the supervision of a specialist. 1200 bags of blood were collected during the course
of the event.

Donors have also supplied refreshments such as snacks, ice cream, and juice as well as free testing for Malaria, Syphilis, Hepatitis A and B, and HIV. A free membership card was also provided to the donors from “Bangladesh Thalassemia Foundation and Samity”.

Regarding this event, Mahmudul Hasan, President, North South University Social Services Club says, “The gift of blood is the gift of life. Your donation can make a significant difference in the life of someone in need. Every drop of blood donated has the power to save a life and today we have witnessed the power of kindness and generosity in our community.

To that effect, the university and the club are coming forward to do their part in collecting the much-needed blood and gifting it to the people affected by the deadly disease like thalassemia.”

 Twitter sacked half of its 7,500-strong staff on Friday as new owner Elon Musk launched his major overhaul of the troubled company just a week after his blockbuster takeover.

An internal document seen by AFP said “roughly 50 percent” of employees were impacted and would be denied access to company computers and email on an immediate basis.

Workers around the world were shown the door and took to Twitter to vent their frustration or disbelief and say goodbye to one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic companies.

“Woke up to the news that my time working at Twitter has come to an end.

I am heartbroken. I am in denial,” said Michele Austin, Twitter’s director of public policy for the United States and Canada.

“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” Musk tweeted Friday evening in his first comment on the subject, 24 hours after the company’s initial email notifying employees of forthcoming layoffs.

Ahead of the layoffs, Twitter closed access to its offices worldwide, asking employees to stay at home to await news of their fate through an email.
“It’s a pretty inhumane way to treat people. It seems like a mercenary effort, they’re trying to save money at all cost,” said one dismissed employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The cull is part of Musk’s push to find ways to pay for the mammoth $44 billion deal for which he took on billions of dollars in debt and sold $15.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla, his electric car company.

Company sources said that Musk’s teams were imposing a furious pace on the remaining employees, bringing in Tesla developers to oversee the work of “Tweeps,” the inhouse name for Twitter workers.

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief, is said to owe $1 billion in annual interest alone to pay for a deal he tried to wiggle out from almost as soon as he made it in April.

Musk has been scrambling to find new ways for Twitter to make money after his mammoth buyout, including an idea to charge users $8 a month for verified accounts.

The moves would help overcome the potential loss of advertisers, Twitter’s main source of revenue, with many of the world’s top brands putting their ad buys on hold, spooked by Musk’s well-known disdain for content controls.

– ‘Messed up!-

The mercurial tycoon on Friday complained on Twitter of a “massive drop in revenue” that he blamed on “activist groups” that were pressuring advertisers.

“We did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America,” he added.

This appeared to refer to Musk’s recent meeting with civil rights groups in which he heard concerns that Twitter would open the floodgates to hate speech a week before midterm election in the United States.

In an effort to soothe nerves, Musk had vowed that Twitter will not become a “free-for-all hellscape,” but since taking over the company he also has shared a tweet relaying a conspiracy theory about an assault on the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“We are witnessing the real time destruction of one of the world’s most powerful communication systems. Elon Musk is an erratic billionaire who is dangerously unqualified to run this platform,” said Nicole Gill, Executive Director of Accountable Tech.

She was part of a coalition of 60 rights groups calling on Friday for a boycott by advertisers of the Musk-owned platform.

Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, a leading civil rights organization, said it would be “immoral, dangerous, and highly destructive to our democracy for any advertiser to fund a platform that fuels hate speech, election denialism and conspiracy theories.”

“Until actions are taken to make this a safe space, we call on companies to pause all advertising on Twitter,” he added.

Twitter head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth tried to soothe concerns, saying that about 15 percent of his department had been let go in comparison to the 50-percent cuts company-wide.

The site’s “core moderation capabilities remain in place,” he tweeted.

Though extremely influential with opinion-makers and celebrities, the California company has long struggled to generate profit and has failed to keep pace with Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in gaining new users.
In the sign that matters were not improving, data showed Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Musk took over.

Estimates from Bot Sentinel, a firm that tracks Twitter accounts, suggested that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.

 A voluntary and social organization ‘Durbar Tarunnow’ announced the inauguration of an exceptional program called “Amra Mali” (we are gardener) with the motto ‘I take care of my tree’.

The central president of Durbar Tarunnow, Muhammad Abu Abid, started the journey of the project by planting hundreds of trees in Moghadiya Union of Mirsarai in Chattogram district on Thursday afternoon.

Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar,the inventor of the only corona prevention booth in Bangladesh,inaugurated the project by connecting virtually as the chief guest.Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar said, there is no alternative to trees to keep the balance of environment.So both tree planting and its maintenance are important issues. We always welcome all the exceptional ideas of Durbar Tarunnow.

They will keep themselves involved in the overall development of the country. ‘We are gardeners’ is just a show about taking care of trees.This project will be successful if everyone is aware of the care of trees.

While speaking about the project, President of Durbar Tarunnow Muhammad Abu Abid said, millions of trees are planted in Bangladesh every year.The number of our members and volunteers across Bangladesh has exceeded 8 thousand.Durbar Tarunnow decided that each of our members will plant a tree and take care of it like a gardener. Our concept is plant and nurture.

The central vice president of Durbar Tarunnow Sheikh Muhammad ArifUllah Chowdhury, Organizing Secretary Md.Jihadul Islam and other members of the organization Md. Ibrahim,Md. Saddam Hossain,Md. Rubel,Md.Ahidul Islam,Md.Samchuddin,Md.Rumon Mia, Md.Azim Uddin Chowdhury,Md.ManjurMorrshed,Md.Salman, district and local leaders and local dignitaries were present at that time.

The initiators believe that it is possible to make green Bangladesh as well as the world by planting trees and taking care of them by adopting the idea of ​​Durbar Tarunnow’s project.

 Skipper Shakib Al Hasan and opener Liton Das came up with terrific performance to script Bangladesh’s 77-run win over Ireland in the second T20 International at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium here today. 

The victory helped Bangladesh take an unassailable 2-0 lead following their 22-run win in the first game by DLS method. 

Shakib and Liton were instrumental in the victory which saw a number of records break in the dominating victory.

Opener Liton Das smashed a swashbuckling 41 ball-83 as Bangladesh compiled 202-3 in the second T20 International against Ireland, which was reduced to a 17-over game after rain halted the game twice.

Liton brought up his fifty off just 18 deliveries, which was fastest by a Bangladeshi batter, eclipsing Mohammad Ashraful’s 20 ball-fifty against West Indies in 2007 T20 World Cup. He clobbered 10 fours and three sixes overall. 

Bangladesh scored runs at 11.88 per over, comfortably their best in their history and a full over game could potentially help them go past their highest total of 215 in this format. 

Shakib Al Hasan who hammered an unbeaten 38 off 24, laced with three fours and two sixes, pushed the Bangladesh’s total past 200 for the consecutive second match for the first time in their history and then got into act in style with cherry as he claimed 5-22 to restrict Ireland to 125-9.

It was his second-best bowling figures in T20 International after a 5-20 against West Indies in Mirpur in 2018. 

This was also the fourth time that Shakib scored more than 20 runs and taken four wickets in a T20I – most by any player. India’s Hardik Pandya comes next to Shakib in this regard as the Indian pace-bowling all-rounder scored 20-plus runs and taken four wickets in a T20I three times.
 
After his tremendous bowling show, Shakib now has 136 wickets in 114 matches, pushing New Zealand’s Tim Southee to second in the list with 134 wickets in 107 T20Is. 
 
Opener Rony Talukdar, fresh from his 38 ball-67, smoked 44 off 23 with three fours and two sixes. 

Put into bat first again, Liton and Rony gave Bangladesh a whirlwind start, sending the Irish bowlers at the receiving end. 

Treating them with utmost disdain, they racked up 73 runs in the first power play, which was for the first five overs, instead of the six, since the match was reduced for three overs. Earlier in the first match Bangladesh put up a record 81 runs in the first six overs. 

They might not break the power play record but brought up 100 runs off just 43 legal deliveries to set another record, putting a shed on the previous fastest 100 that also came against the same opponent in the last match off 53 balls. 

After a comparatively quiet first over that fetched 8 runs, Liton kick-started the party with two fours off Mark Adair and then went on to berserk in a way that was beyond imagination.
 
He went after on every Irish bowler’s ruthlessly to quickly reach his 49 off 17 deliveries and then took a single off leg-spinner Ben White past backward square leg to complete his 10th fifty off 18 balls.

Rony Talukdar who watched Liton turning his bat into sword to cut through the Irish bowlers mercilessly then broke the shackle and struck leg-spinner Gareth Delany two sixes to make the matter worse for Irish bowlers further.

As things looked completely out of control for the visitors, Rony mishit one against Ben White to be caught at long-on and it brought an end to the 124-run partnership for the opening stand.

Liton looked like a batter to complete his ton as he continued his merciless attack. But White, who took 2-28 denied him what could have been his maiden century when he nicked one that spun away.

After Liton’s dismissal, skipper Shakib Al Hasan and Towhid Hridoy further came down heavily on the Irish bowlers to keep the runs flowing.
 
They added 61 off just 30 balls before Hridoy was dismissed in the penultimate delivery by Mark Adair (1-52) after contributing 24 off 13.
 
Ireland received a major setback when fast blower Taskin Ahmed had Paul Stirling caught by Liton in the first delivery of the innings.

Shakib then got into act, with a slower delivery that baffled Lorcan Tucker (6). He then struck twice in his second over to get the better of Ross Adiar and Gareth Delany for single digit figure.

Shakib continued to bowl and gave Bangladesh another double wicket over to complete his second five-for, dismissing George Dockrell and Harry Tector who struck three sixes for his 16 ball-22.

Curtis Campher resisted as Shakib completed his four overs quota in one spell.
 
But Taskin Ahmed who finished with 3-27 and Hasan Mahmud (1-6) kept them in check with Campher hitting 50 off 30.

The third and final T20 game is on Friday.

 Bangladesh took the stranglehold of the one-off Test against Ireland, thanks to a dazzling performance from Mushfiqur Rahim and the spinners on day of the match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket

Stadium today.

Mushfiqur hammered a 126 off 166, clobbering 16 fours and one six as Bangladesh were bowled out for 369 in its first innings, taking a 155-run lead.

Bangladesh spinners then got into act, reducing Ireland to 27-4 and the
side’s nose in front. Ireland still needed 128 runs to force Bangladesh bat
for the second time in the game.

Skipper Shakib Al Hasan and his fellow left-arm spinner Taijul Isalm shared
the four wickets to help the side close in on a victory.

Peter Moor was batting on 10 with Harry Tector, the half-centurion of the
first innings on 8 when the bails were drawn for day 2.

Shakib Al Hasan earlier missed out his sixth century by 13, being out after
striking a fluent 87. Mehidy Hasan Miraz scored 55 and Liton Das added 43.

Ireland offspinner Andy McBrine claimed 6-118 to register his career-best
bowling. Pacer Mark Adair and legspinner Ben White grabbed two wickets
apiece.

Ireland were bowled out for 214 in its first innings but showed a spirited
performance before Bangladesh bounce back to take the control of the game.

Resuming the Day 2 at 34-2, Bangladesh lost Mominul Haque for 17 in just
third over of the day when pacer Mark Adair bowled him with a delivery that
moved slightly.

But Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahim came down heavily on them to establish a full
control.

Shakib started with a cover-driven four against Adair and didn’t look back.

He raised his 31st 50 off just 45 balls, whipping a turning delivery of
legspinner Ben White for four through long on.
 
Mushfiqur Rahim played with caution in contrast to Shakib’s aggressive
approach but as the time progressed he also unleashed some powerful shots to
start dominating the Irish bowlers.

He swept offspinner Harry Tector for a boundary through backward square leg
to reach his 26th half-century from 69 deliveries.

Shakib looked all set to reach his sixth century but edged McBrine behind
wicket after clobbering 14 fours for his 94 ball-87.

Mushfiqur switched the gear in high mode and completed his 10th Test century
and third in the last eight innings off 135 balls, with an outside edge that
flew through between wicketkeeper and a wide slip.

Alongside him, Liton Das also dominated Irish bowlers in style to keep the
visitors at bay. Ireland’s poor ground fielding and lackluster bowling helped
their cause indeed.

Liton and Mushfiqur got involved in a mix-up. But with Liton stranded halfway
down the pitch, wicketkeeper Lorcan Tucker fumbled to give him a retrieve.

However, Lion threw it away one ball later, caught at mid-off for 43, giving
legspinner Ben White his debut wicket.

Bangladesh then lost five wickets for just 38 runs to squander the chance to
bat Ireland completely of the game.

The rot began with Mushfiqur Rahim who paid the price of playing one shot too
many and caught at long-on as he tried to hit a six from a delivery of
McBrine.
 
Mehidy Hasan Miraz meanwhile picked up his fourth Test half-century amid the
regular wickets tumbling. He was the last batter out after hitting six fours
and two sixes for his 80-ball-knock.

 Lorcan Tucker hit a century on debut as Ireland recovered from a shaky start to keep the one-off Test against Bangladesh alive, showing an unwavering resolve on day three at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.

    Resuming the day at 27-4 and with a fear of being rolled out in a session against a much-vaunted spin attack of Bangladesh, Ireland put a brave face to give them a faint hope to pull off a miraculous victory.

    For a grim stat, Bangladesh have never won their first match against any Test nation.

    Tucker’s ton, complemented by Harry Tector and Andy McBrine’s half-century, helped Ireland survive the third day and ended on 286-8 at stumps, leading Bangladesh by 131 runs.

    Tucker who made 108 off 162 with 14 fours and one six indeed became the second Irish batter to hit a century on debut after Kevin O’Brien.

    He formed two significant partnerships-72 with Harry Tector for the sixth wicket and 111 with Andy McBrine for the seventh wickets to give Ireland a lead.

    Bangladesh was bowled out for 369 in its first innings in reply to Ireland’s 214, taking a 155-run lead.

    Tector, one of the six debutants of Ireland, followed his 50 in the first innings with 56 and McBrine, who registered a best bowling figure by an Irish bowler in the first innings with 6-118, was batting on 71.

    In all, Bangladesh were able to take just four wickets, which was the testament of the temperament of the Irish batters in their only fourth Test.

    After resuming the day, Ireland hit back brilliantly thanks to Harry Tector and Peter Moor who added a little but significant 38-run for the fourth wicket. The partnership boosted the Irish confidence to a great extent.

    The hosts could have got the wicket of Tector early in the third morning as he edged a slower delivery of left-arm spinner Taijul Islam behind the wicket when on 9 but wicket-keeper Liton Das put it down.

    Tector then made Bangladesh paying for it heavily, frustrating them throughout the morning session.

    Pacer Shoriful Islam finally broke the partnership, when Moor edged a moving delivery behind the wicket to be out on 16.

    But Tucker’s arrival paced the scoreboard as his bold approach to attack the spinners, specially left-arm spinner Taijul Islam, paid off.

    Tector raised his second fifty in the Test then off 145 balls, with an outside edge of Khaled Ahmed delivery that flew into the gap between the slips and gully.

    But after a little while Taijul had him leg-before after Tector tried to paddle sweep a delivery that didn’t turn much.

    Bangladesh got a ray of after the dismissal of Tector but Tucker and McBrine frustrated them further to take the match to the last session when the hosts believed they could wrap up the innings in the first session.

    Both Tucker and McBrine showed courageous approach of going after the Bangladeshi spinners fearlessly, which paid off nicely for them.

    Tucker however drove Taijul to the mid-wicket for a single to raise his fifty on debut Test off 94 balls and went on to strength to strength, much to the despair of the Bangladeshi bowlers.

    McBrine’s assured presence at the other end also boosted him, as he kept punishing Bangladesh bowlers.

    He however drove Taijul Islam for a boundary through mid-off region to raise his hundred off just 149 balls.

    But Tucker couldn’t prolong the innings as Ebadot Hossain had him caught by Shoriful Islam with the second new ball.

    Taijul Islam then removed Mark Adair for 13 to end the day as the best Bangladesh bowler with 4-86. Skipper Shakib Al Hasan, a left-arm spinner who bagged two wickets on day two, bowled only six overs on day three.  McBrine and Graham Hume, who was on 9, saw out the day without further trouble.