Indian benchmarks continued to trade in positive terrain during the noon trading session led by a rise in power, banking and select heavyweight stocks despite weak broader breadth. Broader indices were marginally higher, with the Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 edging up, even as India VIX ticked up to around 13.4.

On the corporate front, share price of Engineers India Limited (EIL) moved higher by 9 per cent to ₹219.90, its highest level in the past six months. While Shakti Pumps (India) share price slumped 14 per cent in Monday’s session following its third-quarter result.

Also, shares of Religare Enterprises Ltd. fell over 5 per cent intraday on Monday after it approved plan to demerge its financial services and insurance businesses into two separately listed entities.

At 14:43 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 83141.44 up by 514.68 points or by 0.62 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25620.4 up by 149.3 points or by 0.59 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 83212.01 and intraday low of 82276.95 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25624.9 and intraday low of 25372.7.

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Kwality Wall's (India) Ltd. (Rs. 30.00,+2900.00%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 299.75,+4.30%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 925.60,+2.20%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1361.30,+2.06%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 369.10,+1.69%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1504.60,-2.00%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1009.20,-1.45%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 15030.05,-1.30%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3503.55,-0.86%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1358.30,-0.82%), among others.

Among the sectors, BSE Realty index was at 6479.98 up by 78.18 points or by 1.22%. DLF Ltd. (Rs. 641.75,+2.44%), Lodha Developers Ltd. (Rs. 1096.80,+2.15%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 544.45,+2.08%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1767.00,+1.82%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1827.85,+1.04%),.

Whereas, Auto index was at 62056.28 down by -532.39 points or by -0.85%. Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (Rs. 2552.90,-2.31%), UNO Minda Ltd. (Rs. 1214.80,-2.28%), Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Rs. 480.00,-1.94%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (Rs. 5487.00,-1.66%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (Rs. 15030.05,-1.30%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4581 , shares advanced were 1796 while 2584 shares declined and 201 were unchanged.