Stock market LIVE updates: Underperforming firm global momentum, Indian equities started on a tepid note on Tuesday. The S&P BSE Sensex was at 70,014 level, up 85 points or 0.12 per cent. The Nifty50, on the other hand, hit a record high of 21,038 level, up 41 points or 0.17 per cent.
HDFC Life, Hindalco, M&M, Hero MotoCorp, SBI Life, JSW Steel, Tata Steel, Adani Ports, ITC, Grasim, Tata Consumer Products, Bajaj Auto, Adani Enterprises, and BPCL were the top gainers on the 50-pack index, up between 0.5 per cent and 1.7 per cent.
On the other hand, ONGC, Infosys, L&T, Apollo Hospitals, Bharti Airtel were the top laggards, down up to 1 per cent.
Meanwhile, all the sectoral indices were trading with a positive bias led by the Nifty Media index (up 1.25 per cent), the Nifty Metal index (0.58 per cent), and the Nifty PSU Bank index (up 0.43 per cent).