The party fielded Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur, while Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada has replaced Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit.
Social media giant Meta on Thursday said its India head Ajit Mohan has resigned from the company.
Sources in both the BJP and the Janata Dal-United suggested such a possibility but it remained unclear if Kumar, the unquestioned leader of his party, has finalised a deal with the BJP top brass.
NTPC was the top gainer, spurting 4.28 per cent. Other winners were Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Finance, Sun Pharma, ITC, Hero MotoCorp, TCS, Yes Bank, HDFC, HDFC Bank and SBI, rising up to 1.38 per cent.
Traders said the rally in the domestic market was closely mirroring moves in the non-deliverable forwards which was leading the spot market gains.
Tickets for the 2006-07 Ashes series were snapped up at a rate of more than seven every second.
Blessed with a glut of superb all-rounders in B Sai Sudarshan, Abhinav Manohar and Vijay Shankar, as well as bowlers like Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan who can smoke the opposition bowling when the situation demands, Gujarat look set to put on another big show for their fans this season.
In the post-match press conference, Iyer was quizzed about short ball being a problem for him and Iyer, in reply, snapped at the reporter saying: 'When you say it's a problem for me what do you mean?'
Increased demand for the dollar from importers put pressure on the rupee.
Tech Mahindra was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, jumping over 5 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finserv, L&T, Tata Steel and Infosys. NSE Nifty surged 191.95 points to 15,824.05.
Coal India moved higher by over 3% to Rs 263, despite of weak April-June (Q1FY14) results, on expectation of earnings improvement by going forward.
Forex dealers said besides selling of the American currency by banks and exporters, easing of norms by Reserve Bank for providing swaps to banks that are borrowing funds overseas and a higher opening in the domestic stock market also buoyed the sentiment.
The rupee had gained two paise to close at one-month high of 62.14 against the dollar in Tuesday's trade.
Gold prices plunged by Rs 220 to Rs 27,350 per ten grams at the bullion market in New Delhi on Thursday, snapping a four-day rising streak, owing to slackened demand at prevailing higher levels amid a weak global trend.
'BJP was always there in my blood, but due to some reasons I had gone out, but today I feel I have come back to my mother's lap. Looking at my brothers here, I don't feel like I'm coming back to the BJP office after 13 years'
