bpb's weekly pick-tionary of happenings from Mumbai and beyond.

Burning Bridges: A section of the under-construction Lalbaug flyover collapses, causing traffic mayhem and injuring one. Meanwhile, coconut trees outside Mani Bhavan are “disarmed” to make sure the fruit doesn’t fall on President Obama’s head during his upcoming visit to the historic Gandhi residence.

Falling also are President Obama’s fortunes - he lost the House to Republicans in America’s Midterm Elections this week. Perhaps being serenaded with Bollywood tracks by the Shillong Chamber Choir, who plan to dress in “fusion” outfits for the occasion, will help lift his spirits?

High Drama: Even as SRK celebrates his 45th birthday in Berlin, his Mumbai home is invaded by cops who receive information of a potential underworld assassination on the premises. The stuff movies are made of!

Hip Hop star Jay-Z tells the BBC that he might run for President of the United States in eight years. Who would his running mate be? Eminem?

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in a soup after the Adarsh society scam explodes, where a housing complex meant for Kargil widows is converted into a 31 storey residential tower for the rich. Send him home, we say!

Scriptic messages: Akshay Kumar – Aishwarya Rai starrer Action Replayy may not release this week due to legal troubles, Priyanka Chopra looks like a kewpie doll (not in a good way) on the cover of Vogue, and Rajnikanth will play Lord Krishna in his daughter’s new movie, Hara.

Social net-worth: Even as Facebook launches a creepy “friendship page” (essentially a profile page that displays all the interaction between two people), researches in Britain find that the Facebook generation of 16-24 year olds feels lonelier than any other age group in the country.

(S)Peak! You can now get 3G cell phone service on the summit of Mount Everest, all thanks to a telecommunications company based out of Nepal. It’s all part of the Great Indian Revolution, says Tom Friedman, the eternal India optimist.

Sunny Gavaskar gets shady this week, allegedly demanding compensation of a whopping Rs 20 crores from the BCCI for his role as member of IPL Governing Council. Our question is this: how can we apply for a spot?

Sweet dreams are made of these: New born babies are capable of daydreaming, a new study finds.