Indian equities ended higher on Monday. Both Sensex and Nifty traded at a new life time high. At the close, the benchmark 30-share index, BSE Sensex added 198.94 or 0.58% at 34,352.79 with 19 components posting rise. Meanwhile, the broad based NSE Nifty went up by 64.75 or 0.61% at 10,623.60 with 33 components registering rise.

Major gainers in the 30-share index were Coal India (3.26%), Infosys (2.33%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (2.28%), Larsen & Toubro (1.80%), Hero Motocorp (1.36%), and ITC (0.93%).

On the other hand, Bharti Airtel (4.43%), Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (0.54%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (0.35%), State Bank Of India (0.18%), Tata Steel (0.18%), and NTPC (0.08%) were the major losers in the Sensex.

Market breadth was negative with 1,644 advances against 1,078 declines.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries topped the value chart on the BSE with a turnover of Rs. 1,804.07 million. It was followed by Sobha (Rs. 1,259.77 million), RBL Bank (Rs. 1,208.73 million) and Phillips Carbon Black (Rs. 1,185.44 million).

The volume chart was led by HDFC FMP - 1132 D - February 2016 (1) - Series 35 - Direct Plan - Growth with trades of over 100.00 million shares. It was followed by Uttam Value Steels (23.51 million), Kotak FMP Series 131 - Regular Plan - Growth (15.00 million) and Unitech (13.71 million).