Bank of Baroda(up 1.12 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 0.56 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.52 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.51 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.36 per cent) were among the top gainers.
IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.51 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.31 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(down 0.28 per cent) and Federal Bank Ltd.(down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was up 0.32 per cent at 49860.2 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 118.46 points at 23026.05, while the BSE Sensex was up 383.04 points at 75832.09.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
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Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, National Highways InvIT, Suzlon Energy and Ola Electric Mobilit were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Aavas Financiers, InterGlobe, Kaveri Seed Co., Bohra Industries and National Highways InvIT hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while KEI Industries, Praxis Home Retail, Sanco Industries, Spacenet Enterprise and Kesoram Inds. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.