NEW DELHI: Bank shares were trading in the green with the Nifty Bank index up 1.08 per cent at 26,279.2 on Monday.

Shares of IDFC Bank (up 2.18 per cent), IndusInd Bank (up 2.17 per cent), HDFC Bank (up 1.97 per cent) and Axis Bank (up 1.50 per cent) clocked decent gains.

ICICI Bank (up 0.87 per cent), Federal Bank (up 0.62 per cent) and RBL Bank (up 0.57 per cent) too were trading in the green.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 55.85 points at 10582.6 while BSE Sensex was up 226.58 points at 35,207.6 around 02:07 pm.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Idea Cellular, Ashok Leyland, Vedanta, Indian Oil Corp, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, Infosys, SBI, SAIL, Tata Motors and HPCL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.