The trends on Gift Nifty also indicate a gap-up start for the Indian benchmark index. The Gift Nifty was trading around 23,543 level, a premium of nearly 101 points from the Nifty future

Indian equity markets offer attractive investment opportunity with Nifty 50 expected to witness strong earnings growth, according to Aditya Birla Capital.

In the pre-opening session on February 4, the BSE Sensex was up 318.47 points or 0.41% at 77,505.21, while the NSE Nifty 50 gained 104.45 points or 0.45% to trade at 23,465.50.