In a volatile session, the Indian benchmark indices extended the gains on second straight session on October 29 with Nifty closing  above 24,450, led by realty and financial stocks.

At close, the Sensex was up 363.99 points or 0.45 percent at 80,369.03, and the Nifty was up 127.60 points or 0.52 percent at 24,466.80.

Market opened flat amid mixed global cues, but traded in negative territory in the first half. However, mid-session recovery helped indices to close near the day’s high.

SBI, Bharat Electronics, SBI Life Insurance, HDFC Life, ICICI Bank were among the top gainers on the Nifty, while losers included Tata Motors, Dr Reddy's Labs, Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp and Bajaj Auto.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices rose 0.7 percent each.

On the sectoral front, bank, realty, power, capital goods were up 1-2 percent, while pharma, IT and auto down 0.5-1 percent.

More than 130 stocks touched their 52-high on the BSE, including, AMI Organics, Anup Engineering, CARE Ratings, CarTrade Tech, City Union Bank, Deepak Fertiliers, Gillette India, Indigo Paints, Krsnaa Diagnostics, MCX India, Piramal Pharma, Sharda Crop, SJS Enterprises, Thyrocare Technologies, Wockhardt, among others.