Shares of Bharat Forge (up 5.72 per cent), Tata Motors (up 3.57 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries (up 1.42 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 1.13 per cent) and MRF (up 0.82 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Eicher Motors (down 3.74 per cent), TVS Motor Company (down 1.58 per cent), Exide Industries (down 0.8 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra (down 0.32 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki (down 0.14 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.4 per cent up at 10180.55.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 82.15 points at 16364.4, while the BSE Sensex stood up 318.05 points at 54843.98.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 ended in the green, while 19 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Zomato Ltd., SAIL and Power Grid were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of VIP Ind., Indoco Remedies, Maharashtra Scooter, Vinyl Chemicals and Gufic BioSci hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Future Market, Shubhlaxmi Jewel Art, Viceroy Hotels, Radha Madhav and YES Bank hit their fresh 52-week lows.
