Eveready Industries has denied the appointments to be any indication of a possible restructuring in the company, maintaining that the move was a part of the career succession plan of employees.

Exit polls predicting Modi government to return to power on May 23 has propelled the markets upwards, with buying interest in infrastructure, banking and auto stocks. India VIX, that was highest at 28 on 16 and 27 May, has fallen down to 22 today.

Market capitalisation on BSE rose to Rs 150.86 lakh crore today compared to Rs 146.58 lakh crore on Friday. Sensex saw a 1134-point rally with the index hitting an intra day high of 39,064 compared to  Friday's close of 37,930.

BSE Sensex is up 1445.67 points or 3.81 per cent at 39,376.44 and NSE Nifty is trading up by 420.70 or 3.69 per cent at 11,827.85, in the last hour of trade.

Positive trends on SGX Nifty indicate a strong opening for the benchmark indices in India; the SGX Nifty Index Futures for May delivery were trading at 11,679, up by 244.50 or 2.14 per cent, at 9:52 AM, Singapore Time

Here's a look at sectors and stocks which are likely to benefit today after exit polls predicted Modi government would return to power on May 23.

Kotak Mahindra Bank's valuation zoomed Rs 12,531 crore to Rs 2.78 lakh crore and that of HDFC climbed Rs 10,776 crore to Rs 3.43 lak crore

Pragya Thakur in a road show in Agar Malwa region, said \"Nathuram Godse was a deshbhakt (patriot), he is and will remain a deshbhakt. Those calling him a terrorist should instead look at themselves\".

The Chinese move was in retaliation to the higher tariff by Washington, which last week said it planned to impose 25 per cent levies on Chinese products of nearly $200 billion