Bharat Forge (up 4.72 per cent), Ashok Leyland (up 2.7 per cent), Tata Motors (up 2.03 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (up 1.89 per cent) and Mahindra & Mahindra (up 1.75 per cent) were among the top gainers.
TIINDIA (down 0.48 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries (down 0.14 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 1.53 per cent at 9944.1 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 147.45 points at 16852.65, while the BSE Sensex was up 497.42 points at 56622.14.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 45 were trading in the green, while 4 were in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, NALCO, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Madhya Bharat Agro, Punjab Chemical, Datamatics Glob, Gayatri Project and Stampede Cap hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Transwind Infrastruc, Autolite India, Network People Services Technologies Ltd., Keerti Knowledge and Pritika Auto Ind hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
