Mumbai June 22 (IANS) Last hour buying in banking healthcare and auto stocks lifted the key equity indices after a largely choppy trade on Friday.
Broadly positive European markets also supported the Indian indices analysts said.
At 3.30 p.m. the wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) provisionally closed at 10 821.85 points up 80.75 points or 0.75 per cent from the previous close of 10 741.10 points.
Similarly the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE which had opened at 35 428.42 points closed (3.30 p.m.) at 35 689.60 points (3.30 p.m.) -- up 257.21 points or 0.73 per cent -- from its previous session s close of 35 432.39 points.
The Sensex touched an intra-day high of 35 741.26 and a low of 35 344.49 points. The BSE market breadth however was bearish with 1 411 declines and 1 167 advances.
The top gainers on the Sensex were Sun Pharma Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) HDFC Axis Bank and State Bank of India whereas Reliance Industries Wipro Coal India Tata Consultancy Services and ONGC were the major losers.
On the NSE Sun Pharma Bajaj Pharma and M&M were the highest gainers while Reliance Industries Hindustan Petroleum and UPL lost the most.

--IANS rrb/ksk/vd