At 9:18 a.m (0348 GMT), the 30-share BSE index was up 0.44 percent at 17,13142.33 points, with 27 of its components advancing. It had risen as high as 17,246.88 earlier.

The 50-share NSE index was up 0.51 percent at 5164.95 points.

Major Asian indexes were up by as much as 1 percent while Japan's Nikkei was down about half a percent.

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