Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's favourite stock, Titan will enter the benchmark Sensex on December 23, accompanied by Ultratech Cement and Nestle India. The stock has been on Jhunjhunwala's radar since 2002. Watch the video for more.

Of late, Titan Company stock has clocked strong performance on other fronts which makes it an eligible candidate to acquire a slot on Sensex

Zensar Technologies Q2 results: In dollar terms, the total revenue grew 12.8 per cent to $152.3 million from $135 million in the year-ago period, while the net profit declined 16.4 per cent to USD 11.3 million

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Bharti Infratel Q2 results: The consolidated revenue dipped by 1 per cent to Rs 3,638 crore during Q2FY20, as against Rs 3,668 crore in Q2FY19

Ultratech Cement Q2 results: Net sales for the quarter stood at Rs 9,129 crore as compared to Rs 8,710 crore in the previous year, registering a y-o-y growth of 4.81 per cent

Sensex and Nifty have gained over 5% in today's trade. All 30 scrips under Sensex were trading higher and only 2 Nifty stocks Zee Entertainment and Tata Consultancy Services were trading in the red.

In her Budget speech, Sitharaman is expected to focus on making housing more affordable for the masses and arrange GST cuts as well as promote affordable housing for weaker section through credit linked subsidy.

Shah was part of Modi's Cabinet in Gujarat and handled 10 portfolios, including home, law and justice, prison, border security, housing and parliamentary affairs

The top investments of Amit Shah include Rs 2 crore worth of shares in Reliance Industries, Rs 1.4 crore in L&T Finance, Rs 1 crore in TCS. He also has Rs 97 lakh in UltraTech, Rs 83 lakh in Hindustan Lever and Rs 65 lakh in Maruti

Except IT sector, all the other indices ended in the red in today's trade. Biggest fall in today's trade was seen in PSU Bank, which was down 2.8%, followed by Auto, Media, Infra, Energy and Metal, each declining over 1%. Only gaining sector of the day was IT, up 0.66%.

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.

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.

Aditya Birla Capital which is the financial services arm of the Aditya Birla group had posted a net profit of Rs 169.45 crore in the year ago period.

Market Live Updates: Tata Steel, Axis Bank, BPCL, GHCL, GAIL, ICICI Bank are among the top gainers in the closing session.

Through the rights issue, which ran between April 10 and April 24, the country's largest telecom operator offered 2,000 crore new shares at Rs 12.50 apiece.