Leading the rally...

Reliance Energy [Get Quote] zoomed 4.5% to Rs 860. Grasim [Get Quote] soared 4% to Rs 3,177, and Ranbaxy [Get Quote] surged 3.5% to Rs 414.

HDFC [Get Quote] rallied nearly 3% to Rs 2,111. SBI [Get Quote] and Ambuja Cements gained 2.3% each at Rs 1,632 and Rs 141, respectively.

ITC and Tata Motors [Get Quote] advanced around 2% each to Rs 175 and Rs 712, respectively.

Hindustan Unilever, ACC and Mahindra & Mahindra added 1.8% each to Rs 216, Rs 1,102 and 722, respectively.

Reliance and Tata Steel [Get Quote] moved up 1.3% each to Rs 1,983 and Rs 693, respectively.

Bajaj Auto [Get Quote], Cipla, Wipro [Get Quote], HDFC Bank and Maruti [Get Quote] were up around 1% each at Rs 2,333, Rs 185, Rs 478, Rs 1,185 and Rs 881, respectively.

Value and volume toppers

IVRCL Infra topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 132.70 crore followed by Reliance Energy (Rs 125 crore), SBI (Rs 105 crore), Indiabulls [Get Quote] (Rs 104.50 crore) and GMR Infra (Rs 102.70 crore).

Bellary Steel led the volume chart with trades of around 1.77 crore shares followed by IKF Technologies [Get Quote] (1.32 crore), IFCI (1.26 crore), Tata Tele (1.14 crore) and Manali Petro (1.11 crore).