DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 THREE-MEMBER COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INSTITUTED OnMahaKumbh’sbigday,atleast 30killed,60injuredinstampede Officials blame incident on huge rush for dip at Sangam, felling of barricades 16-page form to priest certificate: Uttarakhand UCC rules for live-in PRAYAGRAJ, JANUARY 29 ATLEAST30peoplediedandanother 60 were injured in a predawn stampede Wednesday at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj where hundreds of thousands gathered to take a dip at the Sangam. The incident took place shortly after 1.30 am as people headed towards the Sangam Nose – it’s the strip of land at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati – for a ritual bath on the day of Mauni Amavasya which is considered auspicious. The dead and injured were taken to medical facilities on the Maha Kumbh grounds and to hospitals in the city. Following the incident, the snans (ritual bath) were halted – these resumedintheafternoon.Officials estimated that 10 crore people had taken a dip in the waters by evening. Officials blamed the incident on the heavy rush towards the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AISWARYA RAJ & APURVA VISHWANATH DEHRADUN, NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29 A 16-PAGE form that needs to be filled,Aadhaar-linkedOTP,registrationfee,acertificatefromareligious leader that the couple is eligible to marry if they so wish, and details of previous relationships–theseareamongtherules prescribed by the Uttarakhand government for registration of live-in relationships under its Uniform Civil Code. The UCC Act, which was passed by the state Assembly in February 2024, makes it mandatory for couples to register with thegovernment,bothwhileinitiatingandterminatingalive-inrelationship. Failure to register carries a jail term up to six months. This applies to residents of Uttarakhand as well as state resi- Jagwanti lost her mother and sister-in-law in the stampede on Wednesday. Chitral Khambhati E EXPLAINED MANISH SAHU & MAULSHREE SETH Setting stage for ● others WHILE UTTARAKHAND became the first state to bring in a UCC, it is likely to be a template for others. Home Minister Amit Shah had told Parliament that every BJP-ruled state would implement a UCC. Regulation of live-in relationships raises questions of privacy and liberty. dents living elsewhere in India. The Rules, which came into effect January 2, outline the documentationrequiredfortheregistration process– it can be done both offline and online. Rule 15 (3) in Chapter 5 outlines the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Opp targets Centre, UP: Eyewitnesses recall horrror: We screamed, Mismanagement, VVIP nobody listened… people walked over others Rajasthan HC paves way for registration of culture led to tragedy CHITRAL KHAMBHATI, MAULSHREE SETH & live-in relationships LALMANI VERMA & ANAND MOHAN J SHYAMLAL YADAV NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29 WITHINHOURSof thestampede attheMaha KumbhinPrayagraj, leadersof Oppositionpartiestargeted the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, alleging that “mismanagement” and “VIP culture” led to the mishap and deaths. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhiblamedthe“VIPculture” for the incident and said it should be curbed and the government “should make better arrangementstomeettheneeds of common devotees”. “Mismanagement and the administration’sspecialfocuson VIP movement, instead of common devotees, are responsible for this tragic incident,” he said. SP chief and former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav suggested that the management and administration of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 It’s been Cong, ‘AAPda’ for 25 years, give BJP a chance to serve: PM PRAYAGRAJ, BHOPAL, JANUARY 29 IT’SAFTER9 pm— a day of chaos sincedaybreak,markedbypanic and grief, is winding down. Outside the morgue of the MotilalNehruMedicalCollegein Prayagraj, there are relatives still looking for their loved ones who have gone missing but this is now a thinning crowd. Compared to the rush through- BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29 NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29 Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in New Delhi on Wednesday. Amit Mehra Addressing a rally in Ghonda constituency of Northeast Delhi, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE WORLD TRUMP INVITES NETANYAHU TO WHITE HOUSE PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Finding ‘D K Boss’: In Jamtara, how police cracked cyber crime network HIMANSHU HARSH GAYATHRI MANI WITH JUST days to go for the Delhi Assembly elections on February DECISION 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi 2025 on Wednesday DELHI asked for an “opportunity to serve” the Capital's residents, assuring that the BJP would fulfill all its promises in a time-bound manner. Outside the SRN Hospital mortuary in Prayagraj. Vishal Srivastav out the day of uncertainty and despair as scores made frenetic rounds of city hospitals — including this one. Roads were blocked, key routes to the city were barricaded, most requests for information ran into walls of official silence. Indeed, until evening, there was no word on the number of dead, just official calls to keep calm, not pay heed to rumours. In this Maha Kumbh, where every detail has been framed as aposterof stateefficiency,where WHILEINVESTIGATINGacaseof cyber fraud in mid-December 2024, IPS officer Raghvendra Sharma, the ASP of Jamtara district in Jharkhand, stumbled upon a name that piqued his interest – “DK Boss”. “I remember noticing the same name on another case,” he recalled. Justaweekearlier,inanother seemingly unconnected case of cybercrime, police had detained a suspect whose questioning re- Police with some of those arrested in the case. Express vealed that his modus operandi was distributing malicious Androidpackagekits(APKs)that are used to install apps designed to steal data. When ASP Sharma examined the suspect’s phone and scrutinised his WhatsApp chats, he found that these APKs were sold to the man by someone who went by the alias DK Boss. “The seller’s WhatsApp display picture was just the words ‘DK Boss’ written out, and the account description said ‘contact for any APK or panel’,” Sharma recalled. Police said that when they ran the WhatsApp number through telecom operators,they CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 HAMZA KHAN JAIPUR, JANUARY 29 THE RAJASTHAN High Court on Wednesday directed the state to establish an authority or tribunal to register live-in relationships until a law is enacted for the same. Hearing a number of petitions, a Bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand said, “The live-in relationship agreement is liable to be registered by the competent authority/tribunal, which is requiredtobeestablishedbythe government. Till enactment of the appropriate legislation by the government, let competent ISRO’s GSLV-F15 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. PTI authority be established in each district of the state to look into thematterof registrationof such live-in relationships.” The court said the authority would “address and redress the grievancesof suchpartners/couples who have entered in such relationships and the children being born out therefrom. Let a website or web portal be launched in this regard for redressal of the issue arising out of such relationships.” The court also said that until a law is enacted by the state as well as the Centre, “a scheme of statutorynatureisrequiredtobe formulated in legal format”, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ISRO TON: 100 LAUNCHES AND COUNTING PAGE 6 DeepSeek Effect: We can do a Mangalyaan in AI, say India’s top AI experts ‘ISRO’s cost-effective methods, innovation that encouraged self-reliance can be applied to AI’ PAGE 1 ANCHOR ALIND CHAUHAN & VIDHATRI RAO NEW DELHI, JANUARY 29 CHINESEARTIFICIALIntelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s R1 model, which has disrupted the tech sector, holds lessons for Indiatodevelopthecriticaltech- nology in cost-effective ways and without massive computational resources,the nation'stop researchers told The Indian Express. “With the launch of the R1 model, India could do a Mangalyaan in AI,” said Gautam Shroff,ProfessoratIIIT-Delhiand former senior vice-president of TataConsultancyServicesandits head of research. Researchers are of the view that although the US and China lead the AI race, India can certainly catch up. “With the right focus, India can position itself as a strong contender in the global AI ecosystem. The open-sourcing of DeepSeek models is creating a ripple effect, triggering global competition and collaboration.Indiashouldembracethis momentum,” said Mayank Vatsa, professor of Computer Science at IIT-Jodhpur. LikeShroff of IIIT-Delhi,Vatsa, who works on biometrics and action ars at a fr reach M s. d nation naged to e “We ma develop o” st of the in AI to of the co happen This can FF, IIIT D AM SHRO GAUT odels is epSeek m ing of De ect” n-sourc eff “The ope a ripple PUR creating , IIT JODH NK VATSA MAYA computervision,saidIndianeeds to follow the template set by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to usher in major AI advancements. “In the early days of India’s space pro- gram, we were considered outsiders—somuchsothatcartoons ridiculedourperceiveddeficiencies in space technology. Yet ISRO’sjourneyhasprovenotherwise, transforming India into a global leader in this domain through cost-effective, innovative methods that encouraged self-relianceanddeliveredwideranging social impact,” he said. These same principles, Vatsa felt,couldbeappliedtoAIamidst the race to develop the technology.“WemanagedtoreachMars at a fraction of the cost of the developed nations. This is what is needed in AI as well, and with Jaipur thelatestdevelopmentswehave a demonstration and even a starting point,” Shroff said. The R1 model released last week has sent shock waves across the world — the global tech market has seen a shift, DeepSeek's model overtook rival ChatGPT to become the toprated free application on Apple's App Store, and Silicon Valley giants are spooked. The littleknown company based in Hangzhou has built an AI model which can match the performance of its cutting-edge American rivals at a much lower cost and with limited resources. “DeepSeek’s models show thatnecessitybreedsinnovation. Whenyouaredeniedsometechnology, you figure out a way around it and do something smarter.Someoftheengineering is quite ingenious,” Shroff said. The R1 model is said to have been built with only around $6 million — OpenAI spent more than $100 million to train its GPT-4. DeepSeek’s model uses a “mixture of experts” approach, where multiple specialised submodelsworktogethertoanswer aquestion, instead of a singlebig model managing everything. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2