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

After the arrest of Sanjay Gupta, Citibank’s Assistant Vice-President, two more senior employees have been implicated in the 300 crore Citibank scam. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee speaks of the need to set stronger wealth management norms. Scam corder!

Beat It: A fun list of movies to watch to get over the New Year hangover and a quick recap of 2010 in pictures - from the earthquake-struck Haiti to Lindsay Lohan shedding tears in the courtroom.

Cruel Intentions: Pakistan on high alert after the assassination of Punjab province governor Salman Taseer, who was shot dead by his bodyguard. Strangely, the murderer is being praised on Facebook with over 2,000 users supporting the act.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee promises a decline in the cost of onions even as manufacturers increase their prices and add to the inflation across different sectors.

Glutton-Free: Beatles singer Paul McCartney writes letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to declare January 12 as a vegetarian day in India. We also suggest you be(ef) good!

Hit Man: Sachin Tendulkar scores his 51st test century against South Africa on the third day of the final test match in Cape Town. Congratulations!

Hop, Skip, Jump: The Central Bureau of Investigation makes an appeal to shut the case of Arushi Talwar, citing no leads in the murder investigation. Meanwhile, the victim’s mother calls the CBI report a “ web of imagination”. 

On the Line (of Fire): Congress leader Digvijay Singh demands apology from Home Minister R R Patil as he produces records of his telephone conversations with deceased Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare. This evidence, Patil had told the assembly, was not available.

Party Pooper: The year starts on a bad note for those looking forward to taking time off from work as nine bank holidays including Christmas, Maharashtra Day and Holi fall on weekends. Let’s call it a day!

Six farmers growing cotton commit suicide within 72 hours in the Vidarbha belt in Maharashtra, even as the rates of raw cotton stay stable. Cotton the middle?

Sundowners: As Imran Khan and fiancé Avantika Malik plan a sunset wedding on a Phuket beach, filmmaker and producer Karan Johar offers to turn wedding planner.  Back in Hollywood, the sun sets on another star couple as Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal head for splitsville.

The war between Munni and Sheila continues as two people pick a bar fight with three policemen over which item song is better. Dard-e-disco!