Sharemasterindia.com 3:30 p.m.: The Sensex provisionally closed 136 points higher at 27,781 and the Nifty jumped 52 points to provisionally settle at 8,370.
3:25 p.m.: The European markets were trading with a negative bias. Gemany's DAX was down 0.3 per cent, French CAC 40 Index slipped 0.2 per cent and Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.6 per cent.
3:23 p.m.: Idea Cellular, Coal India, Zee Entertainment, Lupin, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, HUL, ACC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ITC, IndusInd Bank and Bharti Airtel were among the top gainers on the Nifty.
3:25 p.m.: The European markets were trading with a negative bias. Gemany's DAX was down 0.3 per cent, French CAC 40 Index slipped 0.2 per cent and Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.6 per cent.
3:23 p.m.: Idea Cellular, Coal India, Zee Entertainment, Lupin, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, HUL, ACC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ITC, IndusInd Bank and Bharti Airtel were among the top gainers on the Nifty.