Mumbai, March 25 -- The Indian stock markets on Tuesday ended flat after witnessing a volatile session. The Indian stocks could not hold their continued upward movement in the trading session today.

At close, the BSE Sensex stood at 78,017.19, up 32.81 points or 0.04 per cent. The Nifty 50 ended at 23,668.65 up 10.30 points or 0.04 per cent.

All the sectoral indices at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) ended in red territory except the IT. The sectoral indices of auto, capital goods, consumer durables, metal, oil & gas, power, PSU bank, realty, and telecom were down 1-1.5 per cent.

At NSE, the stocks of UltraTech Cement, Trent, Bajaj Finserv, Infosys, and Grasim Industries emerged as the major gainers, while the losers were IndusInd Ba...