Bombay Stocks Close Strong

Bombay's BSE Sensex closed at 10,151.01 Tuesday, up 108.95 points.

Gainers on the index included

ITC

, which rose 6.18%;

Tata Steel

, which rose 4.61%; and

HDFC

, which rose 4.17%.

Wipro

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shed 2.51%. Other losers included

Reliance Communication Ventures

, which declined 5.16%;

Ranbaxy

which shed 2.80%; and

HDFC Bank

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, which dropped 3.10%.

Pfizer

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inched up 0.47% after selling its consumer healthcare division to

Johnson and Johnson

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. Accordingly, Pfizer India, which is a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., will be evaluating the impact of the same on its consumer healthcare business in India.

BHEL

lost 2.01% despite news that it received a Rs 550 million contract for setting up a sub-station in Bangladesh from Power Grid Co. of Bangladesh, entails supply and installation of a new 230 KV substation and the expansion of an existing substation.

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