IT and energy stocks boosted Indian shares on Friday, helping the main indexes end the week with gains of more than 1%, while investors awaited the retail inflation reading for October later in the day.

Dear Trader… Indian equity benchmarks extended their gains in today deals with Sensex and Nifty trading near 60,600 and 18,100 levels, respectively. Markets participants got boost after Government launched two consumer-centric initiatives by the Reserve Bank of India – the RBI Retail Direct Scheme and the Reserve Bank – Integrated