Indian equity markets extended their winning streak on fourth straight session on March 20, led by positive global markets after the US Federal Reserve held the benchmark interest rate steady and indicated more cuts later this year.

At close, the Sensex was up 899.01 points or 1.19 percent at 76,348.06, and the Nifty was up 283.05 points or 1.24 percent at 23,190.65.

On the back of positive global cues, the Indian indices had opened gap-up with Nifty above 23,000 and extended the gains to cross 23,200 intraday, before closing near day's high.

All the sectoral indices ended in the green with metal, media, IT, FMCG, auto, consumer durables, realty, telecom up 1 percent each.

BSE Midcap and smallcap indices added 0.5 percent each.

Biggest gainers on the Nifty included Bharti Airtel, Titan Company, Bajaj Auto, BPCL, Britannia Industries, while losers were IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, Trent, Shriram Finance.

More than 100 stocks touched 52-week low on the BSE, including KEI Industries, Paushak, Veritas, Kesoram Industries, GVK Power, Suyog Telematics, EKI Energy, among others.