Bharti Airtel advance was on sustained buying after HSBC raised the price target of Bharti Airtel by 9%, and added that the company will continue to expand market share.

State run engineering large-cap BHEL gained 1.4% to Rs 1,471 as the company secured an order worth Rs 106 crore from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam. Grasim gained 1.4% each to Rs 2,496 and Tata Motors advanced over 1% to Rs 684. Satyam Computers was the only It large-cap which advanced rose 0.4% to Rs 456.

Decliners

Ranbaxy dropped 2.4% to Rs 348 as it was allegedly involved in a cartel of fixing drug prices. Profit taking weighed on cement stocks. Gujarat Ambuja Cements lost 1% to Rs 116 and ACC dipped 1.2% to Rs 846. IT stocks advanced on a weaker rupee until the last hour of trading when they declined. TCS was down 0.3% to Rs 1,122, Infosys Technologies sank 0.7% to Rs 1922, and Wipro lost 1.3% to Rs 509.