After touching an intraday high of 15,235.51, the BSE Sensex finally ended the day at 15,138.40, up 152.70 points, whereas the broad-based NSE Nifty ended at 4,401.55, up 45.2 points.

After recording a growth of 18% in crude steel production in July 2007 over July 2006, JSW Steel was trading up 0.79% to Rs 699.30.

In the meantime, the BSE Sensex was up 221 points to 15,207 chasing recovery in Asian stocks. Asian stocks arose today after a second consecutive session of gains on Wall Street on Thursday, 2 August 2007.

State Bank of India jumped 2.87% to Rs 1592.75 on reports that it is planning to make a holding company for its mutual funds and life insurance business.

About 11.24 lakh shares of the scrip were traded on the BSE counter. The scrip showed an average daily volume of 5.97 lakh shares within the last three months.

Kotak Mahindra bank climbed up 7.70% to Rs 768.05 and led BSE

Mumbai: Lakshmi Vilas Bank stated that it has recorded a 20 per cent growth in net profit at Rs

Mumbai: GMR Infrastructure Ltd has chosen Apollo Hospitals for establishing a medical centre within the passenger terminal building at the new Hyderabad international airport at Shamshabad.

In a release, GMR Infrastructure stated that Apollo Hospitals will establish a medical centre that stretches over an area of more than 300 square meters in Level B of the passenger terminal building and first aid kiosks in the passenger restricted areas,.