NEW DELHI: Gains in Hero MotoCorp (up 1.24 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (up 1.19 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.81 per cent) and Mahindra Mahindra (MM) (up 0.80 per cent) were keeping the BSE Auto pack in the green in afternoon trade on Monday.The BSE Auto index was trading 0.46 per cent up at 24,231 around 12:35 pm.
Shares of Exide Industries (up 0.73 per cent), Ashok Leyland (up 0.51 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 0.37 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 0.22 per cent) and Bharat Forge (up 0.10 per cent) too were in the green.However, Apollo Tyres (down 2.90 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (down 0.73 per cent), Cummins India (down 0.56 per cent), MRF (down 0.48 per cent), Bosch (down 0.38 per cent), TVS Motor Company (down 0.35 per cent) and Motherson Sumi Systems (down 0.10 per cent) were in the red in the index.Gains in select bank, energy, metal and auto stocks were keeping the benchmark indices in the higher territory.The BSE Sensex was up 186 points at 37,743, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 40 points at 11,401.In the Sensex kitty, 20 stocks were advancing, while 11 stocks were declining in trade.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and State Bank of India were leading among Sensex scrips.