Bharat Forge (up 2.64 per cent), TIINDIA (up 1.36 per cent), Tata Motors (up 1.23 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (up 1.2 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki (up 0.82 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Bosch (down 0.49 per cent), Bajaj Auto (down 0.46 per cent), Exide Industries (down 0.43 per cent) and TVS Motor Company (down 0.31 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.55 per cent at 10239.55 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 75.6 points at 15960.75, while the BSE Sensex was up 289.92 points at 53240.55.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 were trading in the green, while 13 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, PNB, Suzlon Energy, Tata Power and Trident Ltd were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Cineline India, Kothari Petro, PDS Multi&Fash, SPL Industries and Nahar Capital hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Vodafone Idea and Suryoday Small Finance Bank Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
