Sensex gains 500 pts, snaps 4-day fall; Nifty tops 24,600; RIL, Bajaj Finance up

Stock market today: At 9.18 am, the BSE Sensex was trading at 79,566.98, up 450.79 points or 0.57 per cent. The index was up over 500 points in trade earlier. Nifty was quoting at 24,618.40, up 137.90 points.