The Nifty rose by 32.40 points to 6,135.85, after touching the day's high of 6,187.75.
In US, automatic spending cuts were triggered on Friday as lawmakers failed to agree on a resolution to prevent them, while China's manufacturing growth cooled in February to a four-month low.
The Indian stock market, hit by global fears and a high inflation-interest rate regime, has been the second-worst performer in Asia this calendar year - a shade above Bangladesh.
Government is set to release CPI for the month of May and Index of Industrial Production IIP for the month of April today.
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BSE-Oil & Gas, PSU led gains on BSE.
India's National Stock Exchange has emerged as the world's third fastest-growing bourse in terms of increase in listed companies, outpacing global names such as NYSE, Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange.
Positive Asian cues aided risk-on sentiments.
The better-than-estimated quarterly profit came on the back of rise in earnings from turning crude oil into petrol, diesel and other petroleum products.
India's two prime bourses, the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, are likely to extend the trading time by two-and-a-half hours from next month and a formal notification to this effect is expected shortly.
But big brokerages see no problem with Sebi panel's recommendations.
BSE's business was hurt as NSE blocked the flow of orders generated using its co-location facility to other exchanges, purportedly on security-related issues. The dispute between both the exchanges had reached Sebi and the finance ministry.
The Bombay Stock Exchange has re-entered the trillion dollar club worldwide.
The Sensex ends up 16 points to end at 20,514.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has asked the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange to provide data of scrips traded on April 10 to analyse the reasons for the crash of the information technology scrips on that day.\n\n\n\n
The 30-share Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange closed 86.55 points higher at 21,337.67 and the National Stock Exchange Nifty index closed at its highest closing levels in 2014, up 25.15 points at 6,338.95.
Reliance up 0.94%, Sun Pharma up 2.85, ICICI Bank up 0.76%, Bharti Airtel up 1.56% and Tata Steel up 2.2% were the top Sensex gainers today.
The country's first Islamic index was launched in 2010, also by the BSE, tracking the 50 largest and most liquid stocks.
Overnight, the Wall Street closed on a flatter note.
Exchange to launch mutual fund trading platform; BSE set to follow.
BSE-IT, capital goods, banks, real-estate led gains.
Asia's oldest bourse, Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday launched currency derivatives segment (BSE-CDX) that would enable participants to hedge their currency risks through trading in the US dollar-rupee future platform.
Orders were executed at 9.15 am after initial order matching, while the markets will function as usual for other stocks.
The National Stock Exchange listed the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 on its platform last week.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share Sensex closed at 18,401 up 405 points. The National Stock Exchange's 50-share S&P CNX Nifty closed at 5,409 up 124 points.
BSE Metal and IT indices plummeted by almost 2%
The special trading session would be conducted to pay obeisance to Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity.
In dollar terms, the Nifty has gained 26.7 per cent in this year, while the Sensex has advanced 25 per cent during the same period.
USEIL, promoted by 11 banks, MMTC, and a large brokerage firm Jaypee Capital has received in princial approval from Sebi for commencing contracts in currency derivatives.
The country's two ubiquitous financial powerhouses, HDFC and ICICI Bank, have been the darling of participatory notes, the instrument through which overseas investors invest indirectly - through foreign institutional investors - in India's stock market. Among the stocks comprising Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index and National Stock Exchange's S&P Nifty, HDFC has the highest P-Notes holding in value, 14.2 per cent, followed by ICICI Bank's 9.1 per cent.
Indiabulls Financial Services has fixed the price of a $45 million Global Depository issue which is expected to be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
"We will launch futures trading on the Chicago futures exchange in a month or two. The trading on Sensex futures will be for 23 hours a day," says Rajnikant Patel.
The trades done on February 6 would be settled on February 9 as a separate settlement.
Benchmark share indices ended lower, amid a volatile trading session, weighed by weakness among Metal, Banks and Capital Goods shares. Weak performance of the global markets also dampened the sentiments among local investors.
BSE Metal, IT and Consumer Durable indices surged by nearly 2% each. However, BSE FMCG index declined by nearly 1%.
