In Mumbai, the Sensex added 0.8% to 17431.85, its highest close in nearly three months.
The stock market has suffered most: The Bombay Sensex is down 55% this year.
Elsewhere in the region, Singapore's Strait Times Index fell 0.3% and India's Sensex was down 1.5%.
The stock market has suffered most: The Bombay Sensex is down 56% this year.
In Mumbai, the Sensex added 0.6% to 16739.01, its highest close in six weeks.
Earlier this month, the miner was included among the 30 key stocks that comprise the Sensex.
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The Bombay Stock Exchange SENSEX India Index has return nearly 20% in the last five years.
It was up 6% at 25.50 rupees in afternoon trading, outperforming the benchmark Sensex, which was flat.
The Bombay Sensex Average, currently at around 19, 000, could pullback to test the major breakout level at 17, 800-18, 400.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and India's Sensex index both hit 52-week highs, climbing 0.6% and 1.2%, respectively.
India's Sensex gained 0.5% to 16912.71, rebounding after being down as much as 1.7% earlier in the trading day.
Markets recovered a little shortly after, with the Sensex last trading 0.2% lower.
Its gain helped push the benchmark 30-share Sensex higher by 0.7% to 19509.93.
Over 100 companies expected to list on the Sensex, or do secondary offerings.
The country's Sensitive Index, or Sensex, was the worst-performing major stock-market benchmark in the region in 2011, sliding 24.6%.
India's BSE Sensex 30 index jumped by 140.36 points, or 1.5%, to 9, 708.50.
Sensex opened in the green on Monday morning, but quickly declined within the first few minutes of trading in Mumbai.
Markets were mixed in Asia, where the Nikkei of Japan closed down 0.1%, and the Sensex of India closed up 1%.
India's Sensex index jumped 3.4% to 15685.21, snapping a five-session losing streak that had brought the benchmark to a 28-month low.
If they can beat the tradeable MSCI Emerging Markets or the BSE-100 Sensex, they might just make a name for themselves.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index rose 3.2% to 8, 955.27, while the National Stock Exchange's Nifty index gained 3.1% to 2, 760.30.
The Sensex index in India closed 1.5% higher Monday at 18, 439 points.
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Elsewhere in the region India's Sensex was flat, the Philippines' PSE Composite rose 0.4%, Indonesia's JSX advanced 0.4% and Thailand's SET index gained 0.2%.
Markets were are also tracking a weaker trading session in Asia, where Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed down 0.6% and Bombay's Sensex slumped by 1.5%.
The recent surge in India's stock market--the Sensex is up 50% this year--has spurred a revival in the country's IPO market after a long lull.
Remarkably, the Sensex, while dipping, was holding above its October low.
In India, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark 30-share Sensex index was trading 436.27 points, or 4%, lower at 10, 398.05 after trading was suspended for an hour.
The Sensex and Nifty indices, after dropping almost 15% in the past four weeks, could decline another 13% in the next few weeks, according to the poll results.
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