TIINDIA (up 2.9 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 2.1 per cent), TVS Motor Company (up 1.76 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (up 1.58 per cent) and Hero MotoCorp (up 1.12 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Balkrishna Industries (down 0.73 per cent), Bharat Forge (down 0.69 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 0.47 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries (down 0.33 per cent) and MRF (down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.78 per cent at 10431.8 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 114.55 points at 17744.05, while the BSE Sensex was up 334.54 points at 59475.7.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 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 RPP Infra Proj, TPL Plastech, Bannari Amman, Bodhi Tree Multimed and Easy Trip Planners Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Ganesh Benzo, Intnl Conveyors and Krsnaa Diagnostics Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.