Live: Covid-19 vaccination has protected India's youth, says PM Modi

Live news updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is speaking on Mann Ki Baat, his monthly radio show addressing national issues. This is the 85th edition of the show and the first this year.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will at 3pm chair an all-party meeting before Parliament meets Monday for its Budget session. Floor leaders of all political parties will attend the customary meeting.

At 5pm, Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu will hold a virtual meeting of House leaders. Opposition parties have said they would raise in Parliament the New York Times' report that the Indian government bought Pegasus spyware as part of a $2 billion defence deal with Israel in 2017. Opposition protests pressing the government to explain if it had used the spyware held up Parliament’s Winter Session last year.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 will probably increase the Union Budget by about 14% year-on-year to 39.6 trillion rupees ($527 billion) in the fiscal year beginning April, according to the median of estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Sitharaman is expected to leave tax rates largely unchanged, and instead rely on income from asset sales and a near-record borrowing of about 13 trillion rupees to partly fund the plan, the survey showed.

India reported 234,281 new cases of Covid-19 and 893 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, said the health ministry on Sunday. The positivity rate increased from 13.3 per cent % to 14.50 per cent on Saturday.