Mumbai, May 14 -- The Indian stock indices rebounded on Wednesday, opening higher following yesterday's substantial decline.

At the opening of the trading session today, BSE Sensex was at 81,278.49, up 130.27 or 0.16 per cent, while Nifty 50 at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was up 35.50 points or 0.14 per cent at 24,613.80.

At NSE in the initial hour, the major gainers are Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel, Shriram Finance, Tech Mahindra, and JSW Steel. On the other hand, Tata Motors, Cipla, Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints, and Eicher Motors are the losers.

In the previous trading session, the market participants booked their profits, following the normalcy due to the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

The equity indices declined substanti...