Mumbai, July 10 -- Indian equity markets opened on a positive note on Friday with Sensex surging over 730 points and Nifty trading above the 24,000 mark after yesterday's range-bound session, supported by strong earnings by heavyweight, positive global cues and other factors fuelling investor sentiment.

Sensex opened higher at 77,395.63, hitting an intraday high of 77,526.85 as against the previous close of 76,741.82. Nifty on the other hand opened at 24,124.70 as against the previous close of 23,962.80. At the time of reporting, Sensex was trading at 77,441.52, up 699.70 points or 0.91 per cent while Nifty was trading at 24,161.60, up 198.80 points or 0.83 per cent.

Sectorally, all indices were trading in the green with Nifty IT emergi...