The Indian benchmark indices ended higher for the third consecutive session on November 12 with Nifty crossing 25,900, intraday, amid buying across the sectors, barring realty.

Positive global cues helped the indices to open gap-up and extended buying helped Nifty to hit day's high of 25,934.55, supported by exit polls of Bihar predicting clear victory for NDA and progress in India-US trade talks.

At close, the Sensex was up 595.19 points or 0.71 percent at 84,466.51, and the Nifty was up 180.85 points or 0.70 percent at 25,875.80.

Broader indices performed inline with the main indices with Nifty Midcap hitting fresh 52-week high of 61,011, while Smallcap index rose 0.8 percent.

Nifty Bank index also went closer to its 52-week high of 58,577.50, ending at 58,274.65, up 0.23 percent.

Biggest Nifty gainers were Asian Paints, Adani Enterprises, Tech Mahindra, TCS, HDFC Life, while losers were Tata Steel, TMPV, Bharat Electronics, Shriram Finance, Grasim Industries.

Except, realty, all other sectoral indices ended in the green with media, auto, telecom, IT, consumer durables up 1-2 percent.

In stock-specific action, BSE shares added 5% after Q2 profit surged 61%, L&T Technology Services shares rose 1.5% on partnership with Autodesk, Aavas Financiers shares gained 5% on better Q2 earnings, Gujarat Fluorochemicals share price rose 5% after Q2 profit jumps 48%, Thermax share price slipped 3% after profit declines 39%.

Kirloskar Oil Engines shares jumped 11% after Q2 profit jumps 27%, Advanced Enzyme shares added 8% on strong Q2 earnings, Gujarat Fluorochemicals shares rose 5% as Q2 profit jumps 48%, Max Financial share price gained 5% on better Q2 results, Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services share price rose 4% after Q2 profit surges 72%, Asian Paints shares jumped 4% on strong Q2 earnings.

More than 130 stocks touched their 52-week high on the BSE, including GE Shipping, Max Financial, Adani Ports, Canara Bank, Titan Company, UPL, Adani Energy, Alkem Lab, Hitachi Energy, Bank of India, Asian Paints, NALCO, BHEL, Asahi India, Can Fin Homes, M&M, HPCL, IOC, Bharat Forge, Ashok Leyland, among others.

The shares of Billionbrains Garage Ventures, the parent company of leading stock broking platform Groww, finished at Rs 130.94, up 30.9% on listing day, on the BSE.

The share got listed at Rs 114 apiece on BSE, with a premium of 14 percent over the IPO price of Rs 100 per share.