About 1,460 shares have advanced, 1,942 declined and 157 are unchanged. 

The core equity indices, i.e., Sensex and Nifty ended on a higher note on Budget Day.  

Sensex went up by 848.40 points or 1.46 per cent. The top five gainers from the pack were Tata Steel, Sun Pharmaceuticals, IndusInd Bank, Larsen & Toubro, and UltraTech Cement. Meanwhile, on the flip side, the top losers included Mahindra & Mahindra, Power Grid Corporation of India, SBI, Bharti Airtel, and NTPC.