Benchmark indices snapped a three-day losing streak to end higher, with Nifty 50 closing above 24,800 on the back of buying in heavyweights and across the sectors.

After a lower opening, Nifty 50 briefly slipped below 24,600, but mid-session buying helped regain losses to end near the day's high. At close, the Sensex was up 446.93 points or 0.55 percent at 81,337.95, and the Nifty was up 140.20 points or 0.57 percent at 24,821.10. The BSE midcap index rose 0.8 percent and smallcap index closed a percent higher.

All the sectoral indices ended in the green with Realty, Pharma, Oil & Gas up 1 percent each.


The biggest Nifty gainers included Jio Financial, Reliance Industries, L&T, Asian Paints, Eicher Motors, while losers were SBI Life Insurance, TCS, Axis Bank, HDFC Life, Titan.


In stock-specific action, Deepak Fertilisers' shares rose 5 percent, PNC Infratech shares gained 6% on order win worth Rs 2,957 crore, IndusInd Bank shares rose 1% in reaction to Q1FY26 earnings, Strides Pharma shares gained 2 percent on stronger Q1 earnings, and Hind Rectifiers' shares surged 20 percent as June quarter net profit jumped 81.4% at Rs 12.7 crore.

Shares of Voltamp Transformers rose 7 percent despite a flat profit growth, Jubilant Pharmova shares shed one percent after Q1FY27 profit fell 79% to Rs 103 crore, Gateway Distriparks shares jumped 7 percent after Q1 profit rose 24% at Rs 60 crore, Kolte-Patil Developers share price fell 7 percent on posting a loss of Rs 17 crore in Q1, and Torrent Pharmaceuticals shares rose 4 percent as Q1 consolidated profit jumped 20% on year.

More than 110 stocks touched their 52-week highs on the BSE, including Bosch, Torrent Pharma, Shyam Metalics, EID Parry, Laurus Labs, HDFC AMC, among others.