Krishana Foschem (up 7.29%), Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (up 5.07%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (up 4.62%), Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (up 4.62%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (up 4.05%), Gujarat State Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (up 4.04%), National Fertilisers Ltd (up 3.13%), Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (up 2.98%), Coromandel International Ltd (up 2.60%) and Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd (up 2.53%) were among the top gainers.
Bora Industries (down 4.31 per cent), Aries Agro (down 2.63 per cent), Lama Phosphates (down 1.42 per cent), Khaitan Chemicals and Fertilisers (down 1.00 per cent) and Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation (down 0.31 per cent) were among the major losers on the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index rose 733.21 points to end at 23,263.9, while the 30-stock BSE Sensex rose 2,507.47 points to close at 76,468.78.
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (up 10.2%), NTPC (up 9.14%), State Bank of India (up 9.07%), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 8.92%), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (up 7.48%), Adani Enterprises (up 6.86%), Shriram Finance (up 6.59%), Larsen & Toubro (up 6.21%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 6.11%) and UltraTech Cement (up 5.6%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, Eicher Motors (down 1.33 per cent), LTI Mindtree (down 1.12 per cent), HCL Technologies (down 0.73 per cent), Asian Paints (down 0.52 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.47 per cent), Britannia Industries (down 0.24 per cent), Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (down 0.15 per cent) and Infosys (down 0.08 per cent) ended lower.