NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the green with the Nifty IT index 0.36 per cent up at 14,406.55 around 10:39 am on Friday.

Shares of Infibeam Avenues (up 1.71 per cent), Tech Mahindra (up 0.63 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 0.60 per cent) and Wipro (up 0.52 per cent) were trading higher.

NIIT Technologies (up 0.34 per cent), Infosys (up 0.22 per cent) and Tata Elxsi (up 0.21 per cent) too were trading with gains.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 96.25 points at 10,876.05 while the BSE Sensex was up 321.4 points at 36,128.68.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 45 were trading in the green, while 5 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Sun Pharma, SAIL, ITC, BHEL, Coal India, Vedanta, Tata Motors, SBI and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.