Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE were: Adani Enterprises, ADF Foods, Eveready Industries, Grasim Industries, IIFL Finance, HDFC Life Insurance Company, Jindal Steel & Power, MMTC, NBCC (India), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Piramal Enterprises, Siemens, Tata Steel, Tata Power and TVS Electronics.
Overall, 35 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 15 were trading in red in the afternoon trade.
In the Nifty 50 index, UPL , ONGC, IndusInd Bank, Coal India Ltd and Hindalco Industries were among top gainers, while Nestle India, ICICI Bank, Asian Paints, Titan Company and Hind. Unilever were trading in red.
The BSE Sensex was trading 304.64 points up at 51086.33. Traders were seen piling up position in Mining, Airlines, Diversified, General and Fertilisers sectors, while selling were visible in Infrastructure, Miscellaneous, Industrial Equipment, Building Materials and Services sectors.
