The sustained buying by investors during second half of the trading session has motivated BSE-benchmarked Sensex to end the today's session with decent gains.

The BSE Sensex closed higher by 151.63 points at 14,645.47 and NSE Nifty ended up by 49.80 points at 4,380.90. The BSE Sensex touched intraday high of 14,727.49 and intraday low of 14,355.52.

Further, BSE Mid Caps and Small Caps Indexes closed with gains of 51.17 and 17.38 points at 5,127.51 and 5,757.42 respectively.

The market today opened slightly above the dotted line in line with other Asian stocks, and touched the day's high during afternoon trading on account of upward movement in front liners.

Though, uncertainty also gripped the market ahead of upcoming Union Budget and building hopes on India Inc.

On the sectoral front, most of the buying was seen in Reality, Teck, Bank, Auto, Oil & Gas, PSU and Power stocks. However, Consumer Durables stocks witnessed selling from its basket.

Gainers from the BSE Sensex pack were DLF Ltd (4.76%), M&M Ltd (3.16%), Reliance Infra (2.99%), RCom (2.98%), Tata Motors (2.80%), Bharti Airtel (2.58%), Sun Pharma
(2.51%), SBI (2.17%), HUL (2.10%), JP Associates (1.68%), Reliance (1.68%) and Infosys Tech (1.11%).

Losers from the BSE Sensex pack were Hindalco (3.53%), ONGC Ltd (1.36%), ACC Ltd (0.65%) and Tata Power (0.33%).