Shares of Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd.(up 4.08 per cent), Bosch Ltd.(up 0.54 per cent), Ashok Leyland Ltd.(up 0.44 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(up 0.31 per cent) and Tube Investments of India Ltd.(up 0.28 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 3.9 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 2.53 per cent), Eicher Motors Ltd.(down 1.92 per cent), Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 1.27 per cent) and Tata Motors Ltd.(down 0.68 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.62 per cent down at 20354.25.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 74.71 points at 22196.95, while the BSE Sensex stood up 349.24 points at 73057.4.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 ended in the green, while 24 closed in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, NHPC, HFCL and Zomato were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Airo Lam, GRP Ltd, Zaggle Prepaid Ocean, Taj GVK Hotels and Mangalam Drugs hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Marshall Machines, Capital Small Financ, Future Supply Chain, Madhya Bharat Agro and Matrimony.com hit their fresh 52-week lows.
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