Indian equities markets were doing better than most other Asian bourses shortly after noon Tuesday, a day after a key index plummeted 627 points.

At 12.23 p.m., the 30-scrip benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, which opened weak at 14,745.8 points, had moved back above the 15,000-mark at 15,062.55 points -- 277.63 points or 1.83 percent higher than Monday's close.