NEW DELHI: Power stocks Torrent Power (up 3.11 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (up 2.92 per cent), Adani Power (up 2.65 per cent) and JSW Energy (up 2.49 per cent) jumped up to 3 per cent during Friday's trade.

The BSE Power index was trading 0.82 per cent up at 2,097 around 11:30 am.

Shares of CESC (up 1.96 per cent), Tata Power Company (up 1.57 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 1.33 per cent), PTC India (up 1.29 per cent), NTPC (up 1.21 per cent), NHPC (up 1.13 per cent) and CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 1.11 per cent) were also witnessing decent gains in their share values.

Shares of Reliance Power (up 0.90 per cent), BHEL (up 0.27 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.07 per cent) were also in the green.

On the other hand, ABB India (down 0.44 per cent), Adani Transmission (down 0.16 per cent), Siemens (down 0.15 per cent), Suzlon Energy (down 0.11 per cent) and KEC International (down 0.07 per cent) were in the red.

Gains in IT, metal, auto, oil & gas, bank and financial stocks were keeping markets up.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 56 points at 10,570, while the BSE Sensex was up 179 points at 34,843.

In the Sensex index, 23 stocks were trading up, while 8 were down.

Tata Steel, Infosys and Hindustan Unilever were the top gainers in the Sensex index.

State Bank of India, ITC and Coal India were the top losers in the Sensex kitty.