At close, the Sensex was up 235.05 points or 0.39 percent at 60,392.77, and the Nifty was up 90.10 points or 0.51 percent at 17,812.40, as investors await CPI inflation. The top gainers on Nifty 50 were Divis Lab, Bajaj Auto, Adani Enterprises, Eicher Motors, and Dr Reddy while the top losers were Power Grid, NTPC, Nestle India, UltraTech Cement, and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. About 2,013 shares advanced, 1,390 shares declined, and 115 shares were unchanged. In the broader markets, the BSE MidCap and BSE SmallCap indices gained 0.57 percent and 0.41 percent, respectively. Among sectors, the Nifty Pharma index leaped over 2 percent today as India saw over 7,000 fresh cases of Covid-19. Auto,information technology indices up 1-2 percent, while some selling saw in the FMCG and Capital Goods names.