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Indian benchmark indices close higher on Wednesday boosted by last minute gains

| | Aug 23, 2017, at 10:04 pm
Mumbai, Aug 23 (IBNS): The Indian market closed comfortably higher on Wednesday boosted by gains accrued during the concluding part of the session, according to media reports.

The BSE Sensex was up 276.16 points at 31568.01 and NSE Nifty was up 86.95 points at 9852.50.

Top gainers on Wednesday included Adani Ports, Idea Cellular, Bharti Airtel, Tata Steel, Dr Reddy's Labs, Bharti Airtel and Infosys while HUL, Tech Mahindra, Tata Power, Bharti Infratel, Sun Pharma, ITC, Eicher Motors, M&M and TCS declined.

Separately, on Wednesday, a notification from the Union Finance Ministry said  that the government is likely to introduce currency notes of rupees two hundred denomination.

 


 

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