Shares of Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 1.68 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 1.5 per cent), HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.93 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.8 per cent) and ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.77 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Canara Bank(down 0.2 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Bank index closed 0.75 per cent up at 55944.9.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 227.91 points at 24946.5, while the BSE Sensex stood up 677.55 points at 81796.15.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 46 ended in the green, while 4 closed in the red. Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, YES Bank, RattanIndia Power and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE. Shares of Subros, Laxmi Goldorna House, OneSource Specialty, Capital India Fin and GRM Overseas hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Shree Ram Proteins, Navkar Builders, Varanium Cloud, Sadhana Nitro and Bluspring Enterprises Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week lows.