Mahindra & Mahindra (up 2.07 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 1.06 per cent), Bharat Forge (up 1.05 per cent), MRF (up 0.91 per cent) and Ashok Leyland (up 0.56 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Balkrishna Industries (down 3.55 per cent) and TIINDIA (down 1.4 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.45 per cent at 10295.8 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 51.55 points at 16289.75, while the BSE Sensex was up 185.49 points at 54463.21.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 11 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Power, SAIL, NALCO and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Rolex Rings Ltd., MPS Infotecnics, STEL Holdings, CMI Ltd and Century Extrus hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Chaman Lal Setia, Future Market, Viceroy Hotels, Transwind Infrastruc and Glenmark Life Sciences Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
