Shares of New Indian Assurance (up 7.18 per cent), Jindal Steel & Power (up 5.41 per cent), Aditya Birla Capital Ltd (up 5.36 per cent), Adani Green (up 5.0 per cent) and Page Industries (up 4.95 per cent) were among the top gainers.
While SJVN (down 8.23 per cent),
(down 3.72 per cent), Adani Transmissions (down 3.21 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (down 2.86 per cent) and Torrent Power (down 2.61 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The S&P BSE MidCap index was trading 1.06 per cent up at 19975.96 around 02:44PM.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 51.25 points at 14726.95, while the BSE Sensex was up 66.3 points at 49810.62.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, PNB, Central Bank Ind, SAIL and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Hindustan Copper, Rain Industries , Sundaram Finance and ONGC hit their fresh 52 week high in today’s trade, while Chandrima Mercantiles Ltd., Sanwaria Consumer Ltd., Marg Techno Projects Ltd., Otco International Ltd., Interactive Financial Services Ltd., SPS International Ltd., Mitshi India Ltd., Ontic Finserve Ltd., Shree Ganesh Elastoplast Ltd. and GCM Securities Ltd. hit fresh 52 week low in trade.
