New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- The Indian stock market ended with healthy gains on Thursday, driven by buying activity across sectors as the September quarter earnings season kicked off with TCS declaring its results.

The Sensex ended 398 points, or 0.49 per cent, higher at 82,172.10, while the Nifty 50 settled with a gain of 136 points, or 0.54%, at 25,181.80. The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended with gains of 0.75% and 0.18%, respectively.

Three stocks to trade, recommended by NeoTrader's Raja Venkatraman:

ETERNAL (Cmp Rs.345.50)

HAL (Cmp Rs.4846.30)

HCLTECH (Cmp Rs.1486.50)

Raja Venkatraman is co-founder, NeoTrader. His Sebi-registered research analyst registration no. is INH000016223.

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