Mumbai, April 8 -- Indian stock indices opened higher Tuesday after a bloodbath on Monday.

At the opening bell, the BSE Sensex was at 74,331.00, up 1,193.10 points or 1.63 per cent while the Nifty 50 at National Stock Exchange (NSE) was up 385.50 points or 1.74 per cent at 22,547.10.

All the sectoral indices opened in green, exhibiting strong investor's sentiment a day after the market fell significantly due to the tariffs imposed on India by the Donald Trump-led US administration.

The major gainers at NSE were Titan Company, Tata Steel, Hindalco Industries, Tata Motors, Shriram Finance. On the BSE, Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 2 per cent each.

Observing the markets, Akshay Chinchalkar, Head of Research at Axis Securities said,...