Among the components of the BSE Information Technology index, HCL Technologies Ltd (up 7.02%), Latent View Analytics Ltd (up 5.01%),Newgen Software Technologies Ltd (up 4.71%),Zensar Technologies Ltd (up 4.34%),Cigniti Technologies Ltd (up 4.3%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Coforge Ltd (up 4.12%), Tech Mahindra Ltd (up 4.1%), KPIT Technologies Ltd (up 3.88%), Mphasis Ltd (up 3.56%), and LTIMindtree Ltd (up 3.47%).
On the other hand, NELCO Ltd (down 2.42%), Rashi Peripherals Ltd (down 1.55%), and Rategain Travel Technologies Ltd (down 0.97%) turned lower.
At 09:47 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 173.31 or 0.35% at 49316.43.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 110.6 points or 0.74% at 15148.53.
The Nifty 50 index was up 153.4 points or 0.63% at 24320.65.
The BSE Sensex index was up 585.07 points or 0.74% at 80180.66.
On BSE,2031 shares were trading in green, 1055 were trading in red and 151 were unchanged.