Quick notes: Bling Bishop, Mars Orbiter...

• Bling Bishop’s €15,000 bathtub: The bishop of Limburg, Germany, is also accused of giving false statements related to an expensive flight he took to India to visit poor communities. There has been a sharp increase in local Catholics formally leaving the Church.



• Victimized by Haryana govt for taking on Robert Vadra: Ashok Khemka



• Tripura CPM leader, seen lying on 'a bed of cash': "I am not a hypocrite like other party members"



• With much better rains than the NDA, UPA had only marginally higher farm growth but double the food inflation.



• How did Reliance power manage to get clearances for use of excess coal from the government?



• Around 75% of the Tavera MPVs made by General Motors, as recently as May this year, were non-compliant with the country’s emissions standards.



• Boost to SDN from Tilera



• The main goal of the $73 million Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is to prove that India can put a working probe into Mars orbit. That is no small feat – more than half of all Mars missions so far have failed. "It's a stretch goal".