Reuters Market Eye - The BSE Sensex is up 0.13 percent, while the Nifty rises 0.12 percent. Auto stocks gain ahead of December sales data.
Hero MotoCorp Ltd is up 0.7 percent, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd gains 0.6 percent while Maruti Suzuki India Ltd rises 0.5 percent.
Also helping shares, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought shares worth 3.09 billion rupees on Tuesday, exchange data shows.
FIIs bought a net $20.1 billion worth of shares in 2013, according to provisional regulatory data, marking a second consecutive year of purchases after $24.5 billion in 2012.
(Reporting by Abhishek Vishnoi)