Indian benchmark indices continued to trade higher on Thursday during the noon trading session supported by buying in index heavyweights including Asian Paints Ltd, ICICI Bank Ltd.IndusInd Bank Ltd. Bharti Airtel Ltd.Larsen & Toubro Ltd. among others.

At 12:45 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 84734.14 up by 267.63 points or by 0.32 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25949.85 up by 74.05 points or by 0.29 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 84838.81 and intraday low of 84253.05 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25987.6 and intraday low of 25808.4

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Asian Paints Ltd. (Rs. 2874.00,+3.63%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1387.75,+2.12%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (Rs. 874.85,+1.20%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 2096.70,+1.12%), Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (Rs. 3996.65,+1.10%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 302.25,-2.15%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 176.70,-1.09%), Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. (Rs. 399.00,-0.82%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 325.00,-0.81%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3727.30,-0.70%), among others.

CDS index was at 62125.59 up by 581.94 points or by 0.95%. Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. (Rs. 15452.00,+0.92%), Havells India Ltd. (Rs. 1465.05,+0.51%), Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 282.15,+0.30%),.

CGS index was at 70837.03 down by -330.19 points or by -0.46%. Hitachi Energy India Ltd. (Rs. 21471.00,-2.42%), Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. (Rs. 490.05,-1.61%), Kalpataru Projects International Ltd. (Rs. 1245.60,-1.32%), Bharat Dynamics Ltd. (Rs. 1515.15,-1.08%), Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd. (Rs. 868.75,-1.08%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4349 , shares advanced were 2119 while 2027 shares declined and 203 were unchanged.