DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES DECISION 2025 BIHAR ● Bhagalpur victims’ lawyer, SC from general seat in PK’s second list ● How Chirag Paswan outflanked his allies in the NDA ● In Kishanganj, two ‘non-citizens’ flagged, make it to voter list `7.00 (`8 RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 U.S., EGYPT, TURKEY, QATAR SIGN CEASEFIRE DOCUMENT Hostages back, prisoners freed; Trump says long nightmare over ANAND HOLDS TALKS IN DELHI, CONSENSUS ON A ‘NEW ROADMAP’ Trade, energy, AI: India, Canada take series of steps to restore ties Both underline ‘respect for each Youcanbealittlebitnicer,Bibi...you’renotatwaranymore:TrumptoNetanyahu other’s concerns and sensitivities’ PAGE6 SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 13 As pressure mounts on IPS officer’s suicide, Haryana DGP sent on leave AMID THE strain in ties with the US over the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs and the “ongoing global economic uncertainty”, India Monday signalled the revival of bilateral relations with Canada as the two sides agreed on a roadmap to deepen cooperation in trade, investment, agriculture, science andtechnology,civilnuclearcollaboration, artificial intelligence, critical minerals and energy. Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand, who reached Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur SUKHBIR SIWACH CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 13 IN A late-night decision on Monday, the Haryana government sent Director General of PoliceShatrujeetKapuronleave, days after transferring Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, as pressure mountedoverthesuicideof senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar. Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police, was found dead from a gunshot wound at his Chandigarh home on October 7. In his nine-page “final note”, Kumar, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste, accused Kapur, Bijarniya, and several CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand in New Delhi. PTI CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Alon Ohel, one of the 20 hostages released by Hamas, reunited with his family in Reim, Israel; (right) a Palestinian prisoner freed from an Israeli jail hugs his family member in Ramallah, West Bank, on Monday. Reuters FULLCOVERAGE,PAGE14 NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI & MAAYAN LUBELL CAIRO, JERUSALEM, OCTOBER 13 HAMAS FREED the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday under a ceasefire deal andIsraelsenthome busloadsof Palestinian detainees, as US President Donald Trump told Israel's Parliament that peace had arrived in the “holy land”. TheIsraelimilitarysaidithad received all 20 hostages confirmed to be alive, after their transfer from Gaza by the Red THE EDITORIAL PAGE BUSINESS AS USUAL HOPEINGAZA BY UNNY Trump, disruptor-in-chief, becomes the unlikely peacemaker; what next depends on Hamas and Israel moving to Phase 2 PAGE 10 Cross. The announcement promptedcheering,huggingand weeping among thousands waiting at “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv. In Gaza, thousands of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MoSKirtiVardhanSinghwith President TrumpinSharm el-Sheikh.PMModi,inapost onX,saidIndiasupports Trump’s‘sincereeffortsto bringpeacetotheregion’. MEA REPORT, PAGE 2 Hitting theresetbutton THE CHILL in bilateral relations owing to the then Trudeau government’s charges against India now appears to be in the past. With the change of guard in Ottawa, the two sides have pressed the reset button, moving to restore stability in ties and cooperation amid the fallout of the Trump tariffs, global economic uncertainty. 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