India, Feb. 13 -- The stock market opened in the green on Thursday, February 13, 2025, as healthcare and pharmaceutical stocks rose.

This comes just before the new Income Tax Bill gets tabled in Parliament by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

At 9:20am, the benchmark BSE Sensex was up by 179.30 points or 0.24%, reaching 76,350.38. The broader NSE Nifty opened 43.20 points up or 0.19% in the green, reaching 23,088.45.

"The Income Tax Bill 2025 is a significant step towards simplification compared to the Income Tax Act 1961," said Feroze Azeez, Deputy CEO of Anand Rathi Wealth Limited. "With clearer language and a more structured layout, it substantially increased the common man's ability to interpret the law."

"The government ...