Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 2.86 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 2.51 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 2.37 per cent), Canara Bank(up 2.29 per cent) and Punjab National Bank(up 1.72 per cent) were among the top gainers.
ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.74 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was up 0.68 per cent at 56963.45 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 114.55 points at 25117.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 352.87 points at 82541.86.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank and IDFC First Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Hybrid Financial Services, Indef Manufacturing, Shankara Bldg Prod, Sudarshan Chemical and MCX India hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Varanium Cloud, Techindia Nirman, Lakshmi Precis, Cambridge Tech and Astron Paper & Board hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.