Stock indexes rose early on Monday, in line with steady developments in global markets and encouraging domestic macroeconomic data.
Fresh flows of foreign funds also increased the optimistic development of the domestic stock market.
Continuing the previous day's rally, the BSE Sensex rose 243.69 points to 65,630.85 in early trade. The Nifty gained 91.5 points to 19,526.80.

Among the Sensex pack, the top gainers were Tata Steel, JSW Steel, UltraTech Cement, Larsen and Toubro, Maruti, HCL Technologies, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra.
The top looser were ICICI Bank, Nestle, Asian Paints, and Power Grid.