Indian equity benchmarks ended higher after the last hour of the trading session aided gains.

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Sensex closed at 38,095.07 up by 70.75 points while Nifty closed at 11,462.20 up by 35.30 points. Around 1,132 shares advanced, 1,545 shares declined and 173 shares remained unchanged.

Nifty Bank touched a record high level of about 29,800 level yesterday. Banking stocks witnessed a lot of buying along with metals and FMCG sector. However, auto and IT stocks remained under pressure.

Here are the biggest trades from yesterday's trading session:

Bharti Airtel sold 16,00,00,000 shares of Bharti Infratel at Rs 316.8 aggregating to a total amount of Rs 50,68,80,00,000 crore (Rs 506.8 crore).

Morgan Stanley France SAS bought 4,07,312 shares of Just Dial at Rs 639.34 aggregating to a total amount of Rs 26,04,10,854 crore.

IndusInd Bank sold 2,76,05,034 shares of Reliance Communications at Rs 4.04 aggregating to a total amount of Rs 11,15,24,337 crore.

PGGM World Equity bought 25,16,898 shares of DHFL at Rs 136.55 aggregating to a total amount of Rs 34,36,82,421 crore.

Groupe Veritas Ltd bought 4,00,000 shares of Veritas at Rs 50.8 aggregating to a total amount of Rs 2,03,20,000 crore.