Sensex ends higher; ICICI Bank among top gainers

REUTERS - Indian shares ended higher on Thursday, tracking Asian peers, with financial stocks such as ICICI Bank Ltd contributing most to the gains on the indexes.

The Nifty ended 0.47 percent higher at 8,699.40, while the Sensex closed up 0.52 percent at 28,129.84.

Almost all constituents on the Nifty Bank Index and the Nifty Financial Services Index, which also includes non-banking financial companies, closed higher.

ICICI Bank ended up 4.7 percent, while State Bank of India closed 1.8 percent higher.

(Reporting by Samantha Kareen Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Biju Dwarakanath)