DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2025, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 TWO YEARS OF WAR: U.S. PRESIDENT MAY ATTEND SIGNING CEREMONY IN EGYPT Israel&HamasagreetoPhase1ofTrump’sGaza peaceplan:Ceasefire;freeinghostages,prisoners Hostages to be freed Monday or Tuesday... Gaza will be slowly redone: Trump JERUSALEM, CAIRO, OCT 9 ISRAEL AND the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday agreed to cease fire and free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, in the first phase of US President Donald Trump’sinitiativetoendthetwoyear war in Gaza that has upended the Middle East. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Tejashwi poll promise: Law to give each family a government job SANTOSH SINGH PATNA, OCTOBER 9 RJD LEADER Tejashwi Yadav Thursday promised to enact a law, if voted to power in next month's Assembly elecDECISION 2025 tions, to ensure BIHAR eachfamilyinthe state has a government job. Tejashwi, the Leader of the OppositioninthestateAssembly, said the proposed Act would be brought “within 20 days of formationof thenewgovernment”. “My first announcement CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 9 AFTERISRAELandHamasagreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostagedeal,withtheUSplaying acentralroleintheprocess,Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that he spoke to his “friend”PresidentDonaldTrump Blocked from Tata Sons board, trustee points to rift: ‘Unprecedented... Mayawati rules out alliances; TRADE, DEFENCE, EDUCATION, INNOVATION AT BILATERAL MEET praises Yogi, slams Akhilesh Amid global instability, India-UK now in a different era’ ties key pillar of stability, says PM GEORGE MATHEW MAULSHREE SETH FULLCOVERAGE, P13 GAZAPLAN,BESTOFBOTHSIDES,THEIDEASPAGE, P11 Palestinians celebrate in Gaza. AP LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 9 ADDRESSING A rally near the Kanshi Ram memorial in LucknowThursday,BSPpresident Mayawatiassertedthatherparty will fight the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on its own steam, ruling out any alliances. She urged the BSP’s leaders and workerstostepupeffortstobring thepartytopowerandmakeher theChief Ministerforafifthtime. Mayawatiheldthemegarally afterfouryearsontheoccasionof the 19th death anniversary of partyfounderKanshiRam.Itwas projected as a show of strength meanttogalvanisetheBSP'srank and file ahead of the UP polls. Thepartyhasbeenstruggling to make its mark in state politics CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House. AP Indiaglobalplayer,London-Delhitiesjewelincrown:Starmer BSP chief Mayawati with nephew Akash Anand during a rally to mark Kanshi Ram’s death anniversary in Lucknow on Thursday. Vishal Srivastav for several years now. In her speech, the BSP supremo kept her guns trained CONTINUEDONPAGE2 MAYA HAS SHOWN ‘BADA DIL’: BJP PAGE 4 SHUBHAJIT ROY & ALOK DESHPANDE NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, OCTOBER 9 UNDERLINING THAT India and the UK are “natural partners”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met his British counterpart Keir Starmer in Mumbai on Thursday,saidthe“growingpartnership”betweenthetwocountries“standsasanimportantpillar of global stability and economic progress in today's time of global instability” — an oblique reference to the US administration’s unpredictability PM Narendra Modi with UK PM Keir Starmer in Mumbai. PTI afterPresidentDonaldTrumpassumed office earlier this year. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 TALIBAN MINISTER STARTS INDIA TRIP P7 MUMBAI, OCTOBER 9 AFTER A bloc within Tata Trusts reportedly voted against his reappointment as nominee director on the board of Tata Sons, Vijay Singh, a trustee and vicechairmanof TataTrusts,saidthat putting any issue to vote was “unprecedented” within the organisation and went against the late Ratan Tata’s insistence on “consensus and unanimity” in decision-making. Responding to queries from The Indian Express, Singh said, “Theideaof votingonanymatter in Tata Trusts is unprecedented. Ratan Tata was very firm that there should always be consensus and unanimity on issues... and perhaps we are now in a VijaySinghis vice-chairman of TataTrusts E EXPLAINED MAAYAN LUBELL & NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI Modi speaks to Trump, Netanyahu: ‘Historic’ ● TUSSLE CAN HURT INDIA INC PAGE 15 different era.” The vote, which was held recently, brought to light a simmering power struggle within the$180-billionTataGroup,with a bloc of four trustees in Tata Trusts led by M Pallonji director Mehli Mistry reportedly opposing Singh’s reappointment to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lucknow