Bharat Forge (up 1.39 per cent), TIINDIA (up 1.07 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 1.06 per cent), Tata Motors (up 1.0 per cent) and Ashok Leyland (up 0.89 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Exide Industries (down 0.3 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.71 per cent at 10192.15 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 57.6 points at 17412.9, while the BSE Sensex was up 183.32 points at 58361.08.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Zee Ent., Vodafone Idea, BHEL and IDFC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Ami Organics Ltd., Rex Pipes and Cables Industries Ltd., DU Digital Technologies Ltd., Dish TV India and Vijaya Diagnostic Centre Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Inventure Grwth and Varroc Engg. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.