Amara Raja Batteries (up 1.11 per cent), Exide Industries (up 1.09 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (up 1.01 per cent), TIINDIA (up 1.0 per cent) and Bosch (up 0.97 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Hero MotoCorp (down 0.88 per cent) and Eicher Motors (down 0.33 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.42 per cent at 10264.9 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 160.0 points at 15792.1, while the BSE Sensex was up 565.96 points at 52764.47.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, IDFC, IDFC First Bank, SAIL and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Laxmi Cotspin, Tarmat Ltd, Xchanging Sol, IDFC and Aspinwall and Co hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Walpar Nutritions Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
