Champa becomes a grandmother

Photo: SHEIKH MEHEDI MORSHED 

 

National Film Award winning actress Champa has become a grandmother. Champa's daughter Esha has given birth to twin boys in Singapore recently.
The two newcomers are named Arzan and Arish.
Talking to The Daily Star, an elated Champa said, “My family members are very happy that we are blessed with twin baby boys. I don't have a son, and these twins are a blessing to me.”
The actress also informed that she recently came to Dhaka after spending four months in Singapore.
Champa expressed hopes of returning to television soon.  
 

Staff Correspondent

Actresses who refuse to drop their clothes

Sonakshi Sinha

Online Desk

Bollywood is getting bolder by the day. Actors and actresses are willing to shed their inhibitions and throw caution to the winds when it comes to dropping their clothes for love-making scenes. 

 

However, some celebs are still uncomfortable with the idea of getting intimate on-screen. Some actors-actresses even include a ‘no kissing’ clause in their contract. Times of India brings two of the actresses forward, who have refused to do love-making scenes or kiss their co-stars in films.

 

Nawazuddin Siddiqui has made his mark in Bollywood with his roles in films like Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Kick, Badlapur and Gangs Of Wasseypur. 

 

However, there is an actress who apparently refused to do a love-making scene with the actor. She is none other than Pakistani actress, Mahira Khan, who is making her big Bollywood debut with Raees opposite Shah Rukh Khan. 

 

According to a report on Bollywoodlife.com, the actress apparently got the jitters while shooting for an intimate scene with Nawaz. Quoting a source, the report stated that the sex scene is pretty edgy, dark and somewhat brutal which has Nawaz forcing himself on her. The report further stated that the sequence was unsettling for Mahira and she refused to do it.

 

According to a Mumbai Mirror report, Sonakshi Sinha has a 'no kissing,’ ‘no bikini scenes' clause in her contract. 

 

Sonakshi has confirmed the news and said, " Yes, I am not comfortable kissing or exposing and I believe in laying open my cards well in advance so that no one is inconvenienced. Till date, I have been very specific about certain things and my directors have always understood my concerns and played along. I don't think this should pose a problem in the future as well. And if a director wants something like that, he is open to casting other actresses."

Mirpur raid: How explosives were disposed

The six men including three alleged militants are detained with explosives from the six-storey building in Mirpur 1 of Dhaka on Thursday. Photo: Shaheen Mollah

Star Online Report

Law enforcers disposed at least 16 crude bombs seized from a Mirpur building during an operation to capture militants today.
After the operation, members of Detective Branch (DB) and bomb-disposal unit of police gathered the explosives at a place near the building in Mirpur Section 1 and deactivated them with a series of controlled explosions.
“The explosives have striking similarity with those used during Hossaini Dalan and Kamrangir Char blasts,” Monirul Islam, DB’s joint commissioner, told the media at a press briefing after the successful raid.
The “criminals” were staying on the sixth floor of the building in disguise of students for the last four months, said Sanowar Hossain, additional deputy commissioner of DB.
Dressed in casuals, detectives picked up the ‘bombs’ from a shoe-case like box without any protective gears and placed them near a wall on the ground at a nearby plot.
The bomb-disposal unit members placed couple of tyres around the pit where they intended to dispose the seized explosives. They used pipes and other devices to prepare the pit, and attached a long cable with a firing pin.
After they moved back to a safe distance, the explosives were detonated. They repeated the process until all the seized bombs were disposed.
The plot where the disposal of the bombs took place was surrounded by a rickshaw garage, a mazar and residential buildings. And the wall where they picked the spot was the back side of another tin-shed house. 
Since morning the police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members cordoned off the six-storey building on Road 9, Block-A of Mirpur-1 following information that alleged criminals were hiding there.
Among the detainees, three are key members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Monirul Islam told the reporters.