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New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested the owner of Bawana fire cracker warehouse following a major fire incident in the unit on Saturday which claimed at least 17 lives. 

Police said,Manoj Jain was arrested last night following a brief questioning with him after the police filed an FIR against him. Delhi government has ordered a thorough probe into the fire and announced an ex-gratia of 5 lakh rupees to the next of the kin of the deceased. 

Delhi BJP President ManojTiwari also announced compensation of 50,000 rupees to the victims of the fire incident.

New Delhi: Former Union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, suspended from the Congress for his controversial remarks against Prime Minister NarendraModi has exuded confidence that he will be re-inducted.

He said he was hopeful that the party would do so anytime.

"It (revocation of suspension) may happen either in the next six hours, or in the next six days, or in the next six weeks or in the next six years," Aiyar said.

"I would know that one day, I think they (will) take me back. Because however much they might feel that they have alienated me from the Congress, I am a Congressman and I shall remain absolutely loyal to the party," he said at the "India Today Conclave South 2018".

New Delhi: The US government officially shut down on Friday for the first time in five years after lawmakers failed to agree on a spending deal. Despite last minute bipartisan meetings, the bill to fund the government until 16 February did not receive the required 60 votes in the Senate. 

The House of Representatives voted 230-197 on Thursday night to extend funding until next month, but the measure failed to pass the Senate. Many government offices will close unless a compromise is found before the midnight deadline. 

However, essential services like national security, post, air traffic control, inpatient medical services, emergency outpatient medicine, disaster assistance, prisons, taxation and electricity production will continue. 

New Delhi: Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has triggered a debate on the issue of governance in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, saying a division of the state would become inevitable due to its size and large population.

Delivering the second V Ramachandran Memorial Lecture, organised by the Centre for Management Development in Thiruvananthapuram on "Reflections on India's demographic future", Ramesh said, "I for one believe that the reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh will become inevitable, sooner rather than later." 

This was because a state with a population of over 400 million by the middle of the century "will simply become ungovernable, even with landslide mandates for the political party in power", he added.