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Instagram rolls out Valentine’s Day features for posts and chats
Limited-edition fonts, stickers and chat themes add a playful romantic touch
MUMBAI: As Valentine’s Day nears, Instagram and its companion app Edits are sprinkling a little extra romance across timelines, Stories and chats. The platforms have unveiled a limited set of creative features designed to make posts, reels and messages feel more heartfelt, more playful and a touch more dramatic.
From themed fonts and animated text to love-soaked sticker frames, the updates aim to help users turn everyday moments into something more expressive. Whether it is a romantic snapshot, a galentine’s shout-out or a cheeky DM, the tools are built to add colour, personality and a festive glow.
On Instagram, users can experiment with new fonts and text effects for Stories and Reels, wrap photos in Valentine’s-themed frames and tag loved ones with custom mention stickers. Even the comments section is joining the fun, with certain phrases unlocking hidden themes and animations. Notes are getting a seasonal twist too, with hint text and secret phrases designed to keep conversations light and interactive. Meanwhile, chats can switch to a Valentine’s theme in both dark and light modes, giving DMs a cosy, love-letter feel.
Over on Edits, creators get a few extra tricks. The app now offers themed fonts, romantic sound effects such as harp music and heartbeat tones, and dramatic speed controls that can push reels up to 100 times faster for comic or cinematic flair.
The Valentine’s features on Instagram will be available from 12 to 16 February, while the creative additions on Edits are here to stay. Together, the updates turn the season of love into a small digital festival, where a simple post can feel like a card, a chat like a note passed across the room, and a reel like a miniature love story.
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
