Mumbai, March 5 -- The stock markets on Wednesday witnessed strong buying sentiments in the middle of the trading session after trading weak for 19 straight sessions.

At the time of writing this report, the BSE Sensex was up over 835 points at 73,822.28 at 12:16 PM on wednesday. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading at 22,362.65, up over 285 points.

Among the gainers, at NSE stocks of Adani Ports, Power Grid, M&M, Adani Enterprises, and NTPC are leading, while Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Grasim, IndusInd Bank and Shriram Finance are the major losers.

Both the benchmarks are witnessing over a one percent uptick in the mid hours of the trading.

According to the market analysts, this rally could be a relief rally, as t...