Overview

• President Donald Trump departed for Israel and Egypt to join a Gaza peace ceremony, saying "the war is over," with a ceasefire and prisoner releases set to be marked in Cairo alongside regional leaders.
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend the Cairo summit and announce £20 million in humanitarian support for Gaza focused on water, sanitation and health services.
• The NDA announced Bihar seat-sharing: BJP and JDU will contest 101 seats each, LJP (Ram Vilas) gets 29, and the HAM and RLM parties receive six each ahead of November voting.
• Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court framed charges in the IRCTC hotel case against Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav over alleged irregularities in contracts awarded between 2004 and 2009.
• Kerala Police opened a probe into IT professional Anandu Aji’s death after his post alleging sexual abuse by RSS members, as Priyanka Gandhi sought a full, impartial inquiry; Indian police actions elsewhere included the arrest of accused mastermind Pooja Shakun Pandey in an Aligarh murder case and multiple UP encounters, while The Quint debunked an edited video claiming 'vote chori' slogans at a Nitish Kumar event.