Shares of Bank of Baroda(up 3.83 per cent), Axis Bank(up 2.69 per cent), State Bank of India(up 1.95 per cent), IndusInd Bank(up 1.51 per cent) and Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 1.38 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Bandhan Bank(down 0.16 per cent) and AU Small Finance Bank(down 0.12 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 1.55 per cent up at 38879.85.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 124.25 points at 17659.0, while the BSE Sensex stood up 515.31 points at 59332.6.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 ended in the green, while 20 closed in the red.
Shares of Zomato Ltd., YES Bank, JP Power, Tata Steel and were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of
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