India equity indices were trading in the green on Tuesday with gains in shares of UltraTech Cement, NTPC and L&T in BSE's benchmark.
At 9.59 a.m., Sensex was up 258 points or 0.32 per cent at 81,308 and Nifty was up 58.20 points or 0.23 per cent at 24,853.
In the Sensex pack, UltraTech Cement, M&M, Axis Bank, HUL, SBI, L&D, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, NTPC, Asian Paints, Kotak Mahindra Bank and IndusInd Bank were the top gainers.
Tata Steel, Tata Motors, JSW Steel, Wipro, Titan, HCL Tech, Infosys, TCS, Power Grid, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finance, Maruti Suzuki and Nestle were the top losers.