NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of VIP Industries (up 3.69 per cent) and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (up 2.41 per cent) were keeping the consumer durables index up during afternoon trade on Thursday.

The BSE Consumer Durables index was trading 0.41 per cent up at 20,379 around 12:55 pm.

Shares of TTK Prestige (up 1.87 per cent), Symphony (up 1.82 per cent), Whirlpool of India (up 0.95 per cent), Voltas (up 0.63 per cent) and Rajesh Exports (up 0.28 per cent) were also trading with gains.

However, PC Jeweller (down 2.86 per cent), Blue Star (down 0.53 per cent) and Titan Company (down 0.38 per cent) failed to perform.

Equity benchmarks were flat as gains in Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, HDFC and HDFC Bank were offset by losses in ITC, Mahindra & Mahindra, Larsen & Toubro and ONGC.

The BSE Sensex was flat at 35,544, while the NSE Nifty50 index too was flat at 10766.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 17 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

In the Sensex kitty of stocks, 10 stocks were advancing, while 20 were declining.

ONGC, Power Grid and Mahindra & Mahindra were leading among Sensex losers, falling over 2 per cent.