Indian equity benchmarks witnessed a strong rally on Friday afternoon, building on their earlier gains as robust buying interest across banking, financial services, real estate, and broader market stocks boosted investor sentiment.

At 14:30 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 75293.87 up by 1461.32 points or by 1.98 % and then NSE Nifty was at 23535.75 up by 374.15 points or by 1.62 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 75300.85 and intraday low of 74453.39 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 23537.9 and intraday low of 23313.9

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (Rs. 4702.50,+4.46%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 907.90,+4.32%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 4026.00,+4.32%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 770.40,+3.46%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 242.00,+2.87%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1427.35,-2.55%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 284.20,-0.85%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 197.60,-0.20%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1109.00,-0.09%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1113.60,-0.04%), among others.

Realty index was at 5965.11 up by 160.83 points or by 2.77%. Embassy Developments Ltd. (Rs. 59.19,+4.84%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 533.00,+3.80%), Sobha Ltd. (Rs. 1320.00,+3.64%), Godrej Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1677.45,+3.51%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 582.30,+3.38%),.

_IT index was at 27105.28 down by 43.98 points or by 0.16%. Genesys International Corporation Ltd. (Rs. 316.55,-4.47%), Dynacons Systems & Solutions Ltd. (Rs. 1267.55,-2.87%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1427.35,-2.55%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1366.60,-1.85%), Magellanic Cloud Ltd. (Rs. 22.06,-1.74%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4566 , shares advanced were 3221 while 1120 shares declined and 225 were unchanged.