Stock market today, April 15 -- Extending the uptrend for the second straight session, the Indian stock market today opened with a big upside gap in the early morning session on Tuesday. Among the frontline indices, the Nifty 50 today opened upside at 23,368, while Sensex today opened northward at 76,852 and touched an intraday high of 76,907. While climbing to these intraday peaks, the Nifty 50 index registered an intraday gain of 540 points, whereas the BSE Sensex logged an intraday gain of 1,750 points. Today, the Bank Nifty index opened upside, logging an intraday gain of nearly 1,300 points at 52,299.

This Dalal Street rally is once again participatory as buying also took place in the broad market. The BSE Small-cap index is up arou...