NEW DELHI: IT stocks Tata Elxsi (up 1.03 per cent), Infosys (up 0.94 per cent) and Wipro (up 0.92 per cent) were trading with gains during afternoon trade on Friday.

The Nifty IT index was trading 0.22 per cent up at 13,457 around 3 pm.

Shares of HCL Technologies (up 0.34 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.17 per cent) and KPIT Technologies (up 0.06 per cent) were also in the green.

However, Oracle Financial Services Software (down 2.36 per cent), Mindtree (down 0.96 per cent), Infibeam Incorporation (down 0.42 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (down 0.23 per cent) were in the red.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 79 points at 10,796, while the BSE Sensex was up 246 points at 35,493.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Shares of Idea Cellular, Bharti Airtel, Punjab National Bank, Indian Oil Corporation and ICICI Bank were among the most traded stocks on NSE.