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

A-News-Bouche: Journalist Barkha Dutt faces the heat as a four-member panel from the press question her professional ethics, after tapes of her conversation with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia were leaked. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has asked for the original tapes to be handed over for further investigation.

Boomerang: Expelled IPL team Rajasthan Royals find their way back into the cricket tournament as the court rules in their favour against the BCCI.

Classified American diplomatic cables are released to the public by whistle-blower site www.wikileaks.com, pitting American officials against everyone from Putin to Pakistan. Wikileaks founder, currently wanted by Interpol on sexual harassment charges, says he's targeting big American banks next. As if they didn't have enough to worry about already.


Dogs! Rap artist Snoop Dog to perform at Prince William’s bachelor party next year. Meanwhile, actress Eva Longoria and basketball player Tony Parker’s divorce proceedings get postponed as the athlete’ s lawyer finds himself representing the husband of the woman Parker was allegedly sexting. A plot worthy of Desperate Housewives!

Files containing important information in the Adarsh Society scandal go missing. Sources reveal that peons and clerks working in government offices were paid to dispose these files into the ocean. At sea again?

From water chestnut to wood apple, get a taste of Mumbai’s 13 weirdest fruits. You’ve hit jackfruit!

Google makes a $6 billion bid for Groupon, the wildly successful group discount website based out of Chicago. Ka-ching!

‘Great snakes’ becomes ‘baal ki khaal’ and ‘billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles’ is ‘karod kasmasate kaale kacchuve’ in the Hindi version of the Tintin comic book series that released in India this week.

Hollywood actors Anne Hathaway and James Franco to host the 83rd Academy Awards. We hope they avoid these bloopers made by previous Oscar presenters.

Hungry Tide: Social activist Anna Hazare defers his hunger strike by three months after CM Prithviraj Chavan promises to appoint a committee to look into the illegal allotment of land for the Lavasa lake city.

Part of the Digital Life Sacrifice campaign, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys and Usher have vowed not to update their Facebook or Twitter accounts until they raise a million dollars. Silence truly is golden.

Supreme Court questions the appointment of PJ Thomas as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, since Thomas himself is currently facing criminal charges.  Flaw and order!

Talon-ted Ms Kapoor: Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor wonders out loud why Priyanka Chopra has an accent on the yet-to-be-aired episode of Koffee with Karan. Meanwhile, PC loses her role in Kunal Kohli’s next film opposite Shahid Kapoor to newcomer Sonakshi Sinha. Casting Ouch!