NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 4.83 crore) led the pack of most traded stocks on NSE on Friday.

It was followed by Jaiprakash Associates (4.12 crore), IDBI Bank (3.81 crore) and Punjab National Bank (2.62 crore).

Suzlon Energy (2.41 crore), IDFC Bank (2.10 crore), State Bank of India (2.08 crore), ICICI Bank (1.75 crore), Bank of Baroda (1.75 crore) and ITC (1.68 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks in that order.

In a volatile session on Friday, domestic equity benchmarks settled in the positive territory on gains in bank, financial, FMCG and auto stocks amid mixed global cues.

The BSE Sensex closed the day with a gain of 257 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 35,690, with 23 stocks advancing and 8 declining.

The Nifty50 settled 81 points, or 0.75 per cent, up at 10,822, with 35 stocks in the green and 15 in the red.

All sectors on NSE closed with gains, bank, financial service, FMCG, pharma and PSU bank logging gains of over 1 per cent.

Sun Pharma, surging over 4 per cent, led the pack of Nifty gainers.

Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Mahindra & Mahindra, Indiabulls Housing Finance and HDFC too finished the day among the top gainers in the Nifty index.