Sensex up 37 points, Bharat Financial rises 4%

BSE Sensex rose 0.14% to trade at 26,250.54 points at 9:48 am on Wednesday. NSE Nifty too was trading higher by 0.13%, at 8043.20 points. 

Top gainers on BSE Sensex included Network18 which was up over 11%, followed by Bharat Financial, up 4.32%. Major losers on BSE Sensex included Naukri, Apollo Tyres, DB Corp, GPPL and Tata Steel. 

On the NSE Nifty, there were 31 advances and 20 declines. 

Major gainers on NSE Nifty were Aurobindo Pharma, Wipro, ZEEL, M&M while losers were Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, Ultratech Cement and Bharti Airtel. 

Shares of Reliance Infra jumped nearly 4% after 1.6% of its equity or 12.3 million shares changed hands in a block deal.