Indian market ends Monday on positive note
The BSe Sensex was up 215.74 points at 29048.19 while NSE Nifty was up 65.90 points at 8963.45.
On Saturday, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, cleared two key bills -- the Integrated GST (IGST) and Central GST (CGST) -- raising hopes for the scheduled roll out on Jul 1.
During the next meeting scheduled for Mar 16, State Goods and Service Tax (SGST) and Union Territories Goods and Service Tax (UTGST) are also expected to be passed without trouble, media reports said.
On Monday, some of the key stocks that topped the BSE Sensex list were Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, Adani Ports, NTPC, SBI and Bharti Airtel while TCS, Sun Pharma, Dr Reddy's and HUL were the top losers.
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