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Sensex rises 24.05 points

FIIs bought 300,000 ITC shares, 400,000 State Bank of India shares, 700,000 ICICI shares, and 300,000 Hindustan Lever shares. Similarly, the Unit Trust of India purchased 400,000 State Bank of India shares, leading dealers said.

The Sensex which crossed 4200 mark during intraday trading, shown an increased of about 46 points, but could not sustained the high level on hectic profit taking by the bull operators and local institutions.

Mirroring the trend, the BSE Sensitive index (30 scrips) opened at 4159.19 points, touched day's high of 4216.58 points, low of 4156.52 points, before closing at 4194.27 points, showing a net gain of 24.05 points as against the previous close of 4170.22 points.

the broadbased BSE-100 national index finished higher at 1828.20 points over the last working day's close of 1816.12 points gaining 12.08 points. The BSE-200 and Dollex indices increased by 04.38 and 01.24 points to 407.23 and 171.00 points as compared to yesterday's close of 402.85 and 169.76 points respectively.

ACC gained by Rs 2 to Rs 1610, Hindustan Lever rose by Rs 44 to Rs 1665, ITC drifted higher by Rs 9 to Rs 792, State Bank increased by Rs 10 to Rs 294.10.

However, Bajaj Auto declined by Rs 4 to Rs 636, TELCO came down by Rs 6 to Rs 314, TISCO by Rs 2 to Rs 165 and Tata Tea by Rs 2 to Rs 430.

Total turnover rose to Rs 16.86 billion involving 80.6 million shares in 189,321 trades. Out of 6,989 scrips, a total number of 1,845 scrips were traded.

ITC registered highest turnover of Rs 2.8 billion followed by Hindustan Lever Rs 1.6 billion, SBI Rs 1.5 million, Reliance Rs 1.3 billion, Castrol Ind Rs 740, Tata Tea Rs 679.7 million, ACC Rs 470.7 million, TISCO Rs 470.5 million, TELCO Rs 450.3 million, MTNL Rs 360.9 million, BSES Rs 334.8 million, BHEL Rs 273.7 million, Cochin Refin Rs 254.9 million, Bajaj Auto Rs 244.8 million and Satyam Comp Rs 241.2 million in the specified counters.

Good transactions were witnessed at ONGC (Rs 104.4 million), Videsh Sanch (Rs 61.4 million), Aptech Ltd (Rs 28.9 million), Tata Infotec (Rs 23 million), BFL Software (Rs 21.9 million), Software Sol (Rs 17 million), Chambal Fert (Rs 14.9 million), Goodlass Nerolac Rs 14.6 million), Rolta Ind (Rs 14.3 million), Reliance Pet (Rs 13.8 million) at the non-specified counters.

UNI