DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA Enrolled as voter MISTRY CAMP GETS A JOLT in two states, PK gets notice from election officer NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 28 AT A time when India's energy and defence ties with Russia have emerged as a major irritant intheIndia-USrelationship,government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has inkedamemorandumof under- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 On the sidelines of Chhath, women devotees still have Nitish on horizon HIMANSHU HARSH PATNA, OCTOBER 28 ON TUESDAY, the morning sky in Patna lit up before sunrise. Firecrackers illuminated the horizon, the air echoed with Chhath songs, and children ran along the Digha Ghat of the Ganga. As dawn apon their heads, followed proached, devotees becloselybywomen,many gan gathering. Many had of whom had been fastspentthenighthere,othingsinceMondaymornDECISION ers were returning, having.Afterarrangingtheir 2025 ing left the previous offerings by the riverBIHAR evening after offering bank, carefully aligning prayers to the setting sun. the ritual items, they stepped Men carried “daalis (bas- waist-deep into the Ganga. kets)” filled with puja material CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Guarding data in quantum computers EU’s top leadership to to Life 2.0: Science’s finest GenNext be chief guests at next ANONNA DUTT, ANJALI year’s Republic Day MARAR & ANURADHA MASCARENHAS The Express report dated October 28 SANTOSH SINGH & RAVIK BHATTACHARYA PATNA, OCTOBER 28 HOURS AFTER The Indian Express reported that Prashant Kishor has his name enrolled in the voter lists of two states — West Bengal and Bihar — the Returning Officer for the Kargaharassemblyconstituency has issued him a notice, seeking anexplanationwithinthreedays. The poll strategist-turnedpolitician’s Jan Suraaj Party is contesting the Bihar Assembly polls this time. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, BENGALURU, PUNE, OCTOBER 28 NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 28 FROM MAKING plants and rice more resilient, and tracking cancer cells in a patient's blood, to keeping data safe in the incoming age of quantum computers, creating life-like matter or “Life 2.0”. 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These two trusts hold over 51 per cent in Tata Sons Ltd, the principal investment holding company and promoter of Tata companies. Threeofthesixtrusteesinthe two trusts opposed Mistry’s renomination through a circular resolution circulated last week. Thesethreetrustees,sourcessaid, are Tata Trusts Chairman Noel Tata, Venu Srinivasan, chairman of the TVS Group, and former Defence Secretary Vijay Singh. Mistry was first inducted as trustee in 2022, with his current three-year term expiring on October 28. He will have to step downfromthegoverningboards of the Tata Trusts. Tata Trusts comprises Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust along with their allied trusts. Collectively, the Tata Trusts holds 66 per cent of Tata Sons, making it the most powerful E EXPLAINED People gather for Chhath puja on the banks of the Ganga in Patna on Tuesday. PTI SUKALP SHARMA `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 HAL joins hands with US-sanctioned Russia firm to manufacture regional jets in India standing with Russia's Public Joint Stock Company United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC-UAC) — a company sanctioned by the US and some of its allies — to manufacture the latter's SJ-100 regional jets in India. The announcement comes as Indianrefinerspreparetocuttheir Russian oil imports following POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES HAL and UAC officials sign an MoU for the production of civil commuter aircraft SJ-100, in Moscow on Monday. ANI ● What next forMehli ● Mistry LAST WEEK, Mistry backed Venu Srinivasan’s continuation as a trustee on the condition that all trustees would, in turn, support his own nomination. His exit paves the way for Noel Tata to further consolidate his position within both the Tata Trusts and the broader Tata Group. It remains to be seen if Pramit Jhaveri, Darius Khambata and Jehangir HC Jehangir — members of the Mistry camp — will fall in line or continue to resist the Noel Tata bloc. shareholderintheconglomerate. At the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Darius Khambata and Prameet JhaverisupportedMistry’scontinuation,whileattheSirRatanTata Trust,KhambataandJehangirHC Jehangir voted in his favour. The splitverdictunderscoresgrowing CONTINUED ON PAGE 2