NEW DELHI: Most of the private bank stocks were trading up in afternoon trade on Friday, keeping the Nifty Private Bank index in the gainers' court.

The Nifty Private Bank index was trading 0.24 per cent up at 14,131 around 01:45 pm (IST).

Shares of Axis Bank (up 1.87 per cent), Karnataka Bank (up 1.44 per cent), IDFC Bank (up 0.46 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank (up 0.37 per cent), South Indian Bank (up 0.32 per cent), YES Bank (up 0.26 per cent), Federal Bank (up 0.18 per cent) and IndusInd Bank (up 0.05 per cent) were also up.

ICICI Bank (down 0.25 per cent) and HDFC Bank (down 0.12 per cent) were the two components in the Nifty Private Bank index that were in the red around that time.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was 37 points up at 10,515, while the BSE Sensex was 157 points up at 34,005.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of Idea Cellular, DLF, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and NHPC were among the most traded stocks on NSE.