DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2025, KOLKATA, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES, `20 IN ANDAMAN) 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 govt job SANTOSH SINGH PATNA, OCTOBER 9 RJD LEADER Tejashwi Yadav Thursday promised to enact a law, if voted to power in next month's DECISION Assembly elec2025 tions, to ensure BIHAR eachfamilyinthe state has a government job. Tejashwi, the Leader of the OppositioninthestateAssembly, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PK’S FIRST LIST OUT PAGE 4 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 US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House. AP Blocked from Tata Sons board, trustee points to Mamata targets EC over TRADE, DEFENCE, EDUCATION, INNOVATION AT BILATERAL MEET rift: ‘Unprecedented... Amid global instability, India-UK now in a different era’ SIR, state officials being threatened: ‘Bengal won’t ties key pillar of stability, says PM Palestinians celebrate in Gaza. AP FULLCOVERAGE, P12 GAZAPLAN,BESTOFBOTHSIDES,THEIDEASPAGE, P11 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 GEORGE MATHEW tolerate deletion of voters’ Indiaglobalplayer,London-Delhitiesjewelincrown:Starmer ATRI MITRA SHUBHAJIT ROY & ALOK DESHPANDE KOLKATA, OCTOBER 9 AMID DEPUTY Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti’s visit to West Bengal over the preparations for holding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoralrollsinthestate,Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the poll panel of threateningstategovernment officialsandactinglikea“rubber stamp” of the BJP. Warning the EC, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said Bengal“willnottoleratedeletion CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, OCTOBER 9 West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addresses media at Nabanna on Thursday. Express BJP POLL MEET PAGE 3 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 P8 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 9 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 Kolkata