Bakeries to bollywood, health to hoopla, bpb's weekly pick-tionary of happenings from Mumbai and beyond.
Our weekly pick-tionary of happenings from Mumbai and beyond.
Bird-brained: Mumbai and Bangalore battle it out for the title of India’s Twitter capital, as two surveys declare conflicting results.
Bollywood bombshells: Amitabh Bachchan has liver cirrhosis, Imran Khan not getting married this year, Deepika on the cover of Vogue.
Bookies apparently knew that the Chennai Super Kings would win before the IPL final. Another match-fixing report. Yawn.
City s(l)ickers: study finds that inhabitants of Indian cities are more likely to suffer from diabetes and obesity than rural counterparts. Another report claims that the big five killers gunning for Mumbaikars are respiratory tract infections, cancer, pneumonia, heart disease and tuberculosis. Maybe we should all move to Farmville.
Escobar finally nabbed? Bandra nightspot shut for over a week, allegedly due to neighborhood complaints of past-curfew partying.
In other party-pooping news, incumbent IPL Chairman Chirayu Amin announces that there will be no late night bashes during the league’s fourth season. The Eastern European Cheerleaders’ Union is understandably upset.
Mata Hari: Female diplomat-turned-traitor at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad under interrogation even as India and Pakistan PMs plan to meet at ongoing SAARC summit.
More than 50,000 Mumbaikars will get married on May 16, the first auspicious wedding date in over five months. Traffic spikes expected to tie the city in knots.
Naked Truth? The world’s first ever nudist colony was apparently founded in Thane in 1891.
Sandra Bullock receives apology note from stripper who slept with the Oscar-winning actress’s husband. Hollywood’s new BFFs?
Tart bakery finally opens in Bandra with the usual suspects and some surprises. Read our review here.
World health speak: Iranian cleric states that scantily clad women cause earthquakes (leading to an international outbreak of “Boobquake”) while Brazilian minister encourages his constituency to have more sex, claiming it reduces blood pressure levels. Hey, whatever works, right?
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