The biggest winners included Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (up 1.44 percent), Ashok Leyland Ltd. (up 0.94 percent), Exide Industries Ltd. (up 0.33 percent), Bharat Forge Ltd. (up 0.24 percent) and Apollo Tyres Ltd. (up 0.21 percent).

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (down 1.34 percent), Tata Motors Ltd. (down 0.7 percent), Tata Motors Ltd. (down 0.42 percent), Eicher Motors Ltd. (down 0.34 percent) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (down 0.24 percent) were the biggest losers in the index.

The Nifty Auto Index was 0.28 percent lower at 25,525.9 at the time of writing.

The benchmark NSE Nifty50 index rose 35.1 points to 24576.25, while the BSE Sensex rose 38.09 points to 80474.93. Of the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in positive territory while 20 were in negative territory. Shares of Ola Electric Mobilit, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy and Zomato were among the most traded stocks on the NSE.

Shares of Vinny Overseas, Maha Rashtra, Radhika Jeweltech, Sterling Tools and Uflex hit new 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Premier Ltd, Lakshmi Precis, NK Industries, Grand Foundry and Kridhan Infra hit new 52-week lows in trade.