Gopal Krishna Agarwal: There is a need to accelerate growth. Poverty - both in urban and rural sectors - is a big challenge for any government

Exit polls, election outcome to set tone for marketsEquity markets will track election trends this week as the exit polls showed that the ruling NDA is likely to come back to power. The results of the seven-phase polls will come out Thursday and experts opined that markets have partly discounted exit poll outcome in the last few days. Most exit polls Sunday forecast another term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some of them projecting that BJP-led NDA will get more than 300 seats to com...

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.