Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 2.21 per cent), Axis Bank (up 1.64 per cent), HDFC Bank (up 1.15 per cent), IndusInd Bank (up 0.49 per cent) and ICICI Bank (up 0.43 per cent) were among the top gainers.
IDFCBANK (down 2.45 per cent), Punjab National Bank (down 1.79 per cent), AU Small Finance Bank (down 0.52 per cent), Federal Bank (down 0.41 per cent) and Bandhan Bank (down 0.29 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was up 0.84 per cent at 37985.25 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 142.45 points at 17771.95, while the BSE Sensex was up 491.18 points at 59632.34.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, PNB, ITC and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Bodhi Tree Multimed, RPP Infra Proj, TPL Plastech, Bannari Amman and Bajaj Holdings hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Ganesh Benzo, Krsnaa Diagnostics Ltd. and Intnl Conveyors hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
