Media tycoon Kalanithi Maran-owned Sun TV is planning to invest around Rs 500 crore in its digital initiative Sun Nxt, to strengthen its regional channels and acquire movies.

Of the proposed amount, some Rs 250 crore will be spent on Sun NXT, while sizeable investments will go to Bengali and Marathi channels, which it sees as larger markets than Malayalam.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment is likely to complete the process to finalise the rules for four new labour codes soon. The proposed labour codes could provide companies with the flexibility of four working days in a week, even as the working hours limit of 48 hours for a week will remain sacrosanct, Labour and Employment Secretary Apurva Chandra said on Monday.

Chandra on Monday said that the government is considering the objections raised by the trade unions to 12-hour daily work shift and three days of paid leaves.

India who needed to win to keep progressing in the ICC World Test Championship saw the Men in Blue lose the first match against England at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. India scored 192 all-out as England won by 227 runs and the 4-match Test series is now 1-0 in favour of the visitors.

James Anderson produced three of the best possible deliveries to dismiss Shubman Gill, Ajinkya Rahane, and Rishabh Pant on day five of the ongoing first Test. Jack Leach too produced excellent spells as he got the better of Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravichandran Ashwin and Shahbaz Nadeem.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and six senior journalists in connection with FIR's registered against them for allegedly sharing unconfirmed news on the death of a protester after violence broke out in Delhi on Republic Day during the tractor rally.

The apex court's order comes as a big relief for Tharoor and others who were booked by the Noida police for sedition, among other charges.

As India-China tensions continue despite the efforts being made to resolve the border issue, the government has said that as many as 80 Chinese companies are actively doing business in the country.

Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha regarding the restrictions on Chinese firms from doing business in the country, Minister of State (MoS) for Finance Anurag Thakur said that 92 Chinese companies are registered in India at present out of which, 80 companies are having the status of 'active' at present.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed the Rajya Sabha on the farewell of four MPs. During his address, PM Modi became emotional while he was praising the MPs. Along with this, he narrated the anecdote of Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad, when he talked to PM Modi on the phone crying. It may be noted that Ghulam Nabi Azad, Shamsher Singh, Mir Mohammad Fayaz and Nadir Ahmed's tenure in Rajya Sabha is complete.

The United States continues to remain the worst affected due to COVID-19 as cumulative cases in the country has surpassed 27 million on Tuesday.

According to Johns Hopkins University, as many as 27,083,808 people have detected positive for the COVID-19. The death toll in the country stands at 464,840.

Nearly 70 persons from Uttar Pradesh are reported missing after the Uttarakhand catastrophe.

The maximum number of missing persons belong to Lakhimpur district. Majority of the labourers had gone to work on the Tapovan project in the farming off-season.

Indian Prime Minister Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will hold a virtual summit today (February 9). This will be the first virtual summit of PM Modi in 2021. In 2020, PM Modi had several virtual summits with his counterparts from Australia, EU, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam.

Both India and Afghanistan share a close partnership. Amid the pandemic, India sent 75,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and was also able to send more than 20 tonnes of life-saving medicines and other equipment to address the Covid-19 challenge.

26 bodies have been recovered in Tapovan so far and 171 persons are missing after a glacial break in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district triggered an avalanche and massive flooding of Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers on Sunday morning, said state Director General of Police Ashok Kumar on Monday.

Taking to Twitter, Kumar informed that 35 people are supposed to be in the Tunnel where the rescue operation is still going on.

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