Among the top gainers were Ponni Sugars (Erode) Ltd. (up 2.12%), Mawana Sugars Ltd. (up 2.09%), Avadh Sugar & Energy Ltd. (up 1.85%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd. (up 1.63%), Uttam Sugar Mills Ltd. (up 1.29%), EID Parry (India) Ltd. (up 1.05%), Ugar Sugar Works Ltd. (up 0.91%), Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd. (up 0.50%), Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd. (up 0.46%) and Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd. (up 0.19%).
Sakthi Sugars (down 3.04%), Simbhaori Sugars (down 2.84%), Shree Renuka Sugars (down 2.14%), Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries (down 1.93%), KCP Sugar and Industries Corporation (down 1.76%), Bajaj Hindustan Sugar (down 1.59%), KM Sugar Mills (down 0.93%), Rana Sugars (down 0.87%), Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals (down 0.70%) and Bannari Amman Sugars (down 0.51%) were among the top losers on the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index rose 15.66 points to end at 24,302.15, while the 30-stock BSE Sensex rose 62.87 points to close at 80,049.67.
HCL Technologies (up 2.8%), ICICI Bank (up 2.62%), Tata Motors (up 2.32%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.57%), Infosys (up 1.43%), Tata Consultancy Services (up 1.41%), HDFC Life Insurance (up 1.31%), Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 1.28%), Coal India (up 0.95%) and Mahindra & Mahindra (up 0.87%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty index. Meanwhile, HDFC Bank (down 2.35%), Bajaj Finance (down 2.1%), Wipro (down 1.54%), Adani Enterprises (down 1.47%), Tech Mahindra (down 1.4%), Bharat Petroleum (down 1.18%), Larsen & Toubro (down 1.14%), Tata Consumer Products (down 0.98%), UltraTech Cement (down 0.95%) and IndusInd Bank (down 0.87%) ended lower.
