HC asks to stop Lux ad

Senior Correspondent;banglanews24.com

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) Tuesday asked the Unilever Bangladesh to stop the illegal advertisements offering gold lockets for purchasing Lux soap.

An HC bench comprising Justice Moinul Hossain Chowdhury and M Ashraful Kamal passed the order following a writ public litigation.

The court also issued a rule why action should not be taken against Unilever under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

Secretaries of Home and Commerce ministries, IGP, DMP Commissioner, Gulshan Thana OC and Unilever have been made respondents and asked to reply within four weeks.

Advocate Tawhidul Islam, who moved for the writ, said, “Under the section 294 (b) of the CrPC, circulating such advertisements are punishable offence.”

No more item songs: Shamita Shetty

Actress Shamita Shetty, known for her performances in films like “Mohabbatein” and Zeher, says she will not do item numbers again in movies.
The actress, whose item repertoire includes “Sharara Sharara” from “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai” and “Chori Pe Chori” in “Saathiya” (2002), said she hates the tag of item girl.
“I am tired of saying no to item songs. I don't want to be known as an item number girl. Fortunately, we actors get tagged easily,” the younger sister of Shilpa Shetty told PTI.
“I am looking to do something that challenges me as an actor. Now people are experimenting with various roles and subjects. I am open to doing everything. I don't want to do a film where I am just a show piece,” Shamita said.
“If there is fantastic character that comes my way which will shine either ways, then I am open to doing supportive roles as well. I don't want to restrict myself,” she added.
During her ten-year long career as an actress, she has also worked in a few Tamil and Telugu films but Shamita is not happy with the quantity of work she has done. “I have barely done something in my career. I was happy with the work I did, but I was not happy with the amount of work that I did,” she said.
“The wait for good work kept getting longer, I chose to learn something new - interior designing. I started getting more work there. So people thought I quit acting, but that was never the case, I was still waiting for something good to come my way. Acting has always been my first passion and it will always be,” she said.

The actress also hopes that her stint in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa would give her a new lease of life in Bollywood.
Source: TOI

Minister says DU women assaulters held, cops deny

This Facebook file photo shows the incident of sexual assault on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations near TSC of Dhaka Univesrsity on April 14.

Star Online Report

Some people identified from video footage of sexual assault on women on Dhaka University campus during Bangla New Year celebration have been arrested, state minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan told the parliament today.
However, law enforcement agencies like police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have denied the claim and said they know nothing in this regard.
Eight assaulters were identified from video footages to have sexually abused women during Pahela Baishakh at Dhaka University on April 14. There was a bounty out for their capture.
Today, State Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the parliament that “some” of those attackers have already been arrested with “one or two” remaining to be captured, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
“All of them have been identified. Some of them have been detained and handed over to law enforcers. One or two of them are left. Will catch them too,” he was quoted saying.
However, contacted later, Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and its spokesperson, told The Daily Star that no identified assaulters were in their custody.
“We are trying our best to arrest the assaulters. We are still working hard on it,” he said.

Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of Rab’s legal and media wing and its spokesperson, echoed the same while talking to The Daily Star when contacted. “We are trying our level best in this regard.”
The joyous celebration of the Bangalee's biggest festival -- Pahela Baishakh -- was tainted by incidents of sexual assault on women on the Dhaka University campus on April 14 evening – sparking widespread public outrage.
Some 30 to 40 rowdy youths assaulted and sexually harassed around 20 women for about one hour at the Suhrawardy Udyan gate near the TSC area around 6:00pm, according to witnesses.
At first, police denied that any such incident took place. They said that CCTV footages did not show any evidence of the assault. It was from those footages that they later said eight culprits were identified.
The incident sparked countrywide outrage with several student organisations holding protest programmes. At one such programme, police used brute force to quell protesters – which also drew widespread flak.