Aries Agro Ltd.(up 15.46%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(up 9.62%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 5.11%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 3.65%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(up 2.34%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 1.98%), Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.61%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 1.52%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.45%) and Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.12%) stood among the top gainers.
Agro Phos India Ltd.(down 1.36%) and Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(down 0.58%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 71.36 points up at 24770.2, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed up 102.44 points at 80905.3.
Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 3.77%), Titan Company Ltd.(up 2.47%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 2.24%), Cipla Ltd.(up 2.04%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(up 1.97%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(up 1.89%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 1.83%), Asian Paints Ltd.(up 1.56%), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(up 1.47%) and Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.46%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 1.48%), UltraTech Cement Ltd.(down 1.32%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 1.31%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(down 1.14%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(down 0.73%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.73%), State Bank of India(down 0.58%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 0.57%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.4%) and Tata Motors Ltd.(down 0.16%) closed in the red.