NEW DELHI: Shares of Hindalco Industries (number of shares traded: 3.03 crore), NTPC (number of shares traded: 1.63 crore), State Bank of India (number of shares traded: 1.34 crore), ICICI Bank (number of shares traded: 1.18 crore) and Bharti Infratel (number of shares traded: 1.04 crore) stood among the most traded stocks on NSE on Thursday.

Equity benchmarks closed on a higher note on Thursday, underpinned by gains in pharma, bank, FMCG and auto stocks.

The Nifty50 index closed 112 points up at 10,096, while Sensex settled 348 points up at 32,182 on Thursday.

In the Nifty50 index, Hindalco Industries touched fresh all-time high. The scrip closed 6 per cent up at Rs 264.50 today.

Bharti Infratel, Reliance Industries, Sun Pharma, Vedanta, Aurobindo Pharma, Hindustan Unilever and Adani Ports stood as the top gainers on Thursday.

Barring Nifty PSU Bank, all sectoral indices settled in the green on NSE. Poor show of Bank of India, Oriental Bank of Commerce, State Bank of India and Canara Bank weighed on the Nifty PSU Bank index.

On NSE, 1013 stocks settled in the green, while 486 in the red on Thursday.