Escorts Kubota(up 4.75 per cent), Tata Motors(up 2.19 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 1.84 per cent), Ashok Leyland(up 1.73 per cent) and TVS Motor Company(up 1.62 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Eicher Motors(down 2.34 per cent) and Bajaj Auto(down 0.31 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was up 0.85 per cent at 12987.2 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 83.95 points at 17606.4, while the BSE Sensex was up 266.7 points at 59041.42.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.
Shares of , RBL Bank, , PNB and Zomato Ltd. were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Syrma SGS Technology Ltd., Fidel
., , Agni Green . and hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while , Veekayem Fashion & Apparels Ltd., , and hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.