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NEW DELHI: Most power stocks were trading with gains during afternoon trade on Friday.
The BSE Power index was trading 1.27 per cent up at 1,935 around 01:05 pm with Adani Transmission (up 4.97 per cent), ABB India (up 4.24 per cent), Adani Power (up 3.54 per cent) and NHPC (up 3.10 per cent) as top gainers.
CESC (up 3.05 per cent), JSW Energy (up 2.88 per cent), BHEL (up 1.79 per cent), Siemens (up 1.61 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.60 per cent) and Suzlon Energy (up 1.48 per cent) were also among the top gainers in the index.
Tata Power Company (up 0.63 per cent), NTPC (up 0.54 per cent), Thermax (up 0.45 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (up 0.33 per cent) and CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 0.18 per cent) too were in the green.
Meanwhile, KEC International (down 1.02 per cent) and Reliance Infrastructure (down 1 per cent) declined over 1 per cent.
The BSE Sensex was up 288 points at 35,326, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 93 points at 10,682.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 40 were trading in the green, while 10 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 24 stocks were advancing, while 7 were declining.
Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Auto, ONGC, Vedanta and Larsen Toubro climbed over 2 per cent in the Sensex index.
