Share market update: BSE Power index rises; R Infra jumps nearly 4%

NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was up with most of its components trading on a mixed note in Tuesday's afternoon session.

The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.87 per cent up at 2011.35 around 11:56 am.

Shares of Reliance Infrastructure (up 3.81 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 3.48 per cent), CESC (up 1.90 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.50 per cent) were trading with gains.

JSW Energy (down 1.23 per cent), KEC International (down 0.97 per cent), Thermax (down 0.79 per cent) and Siemens (down 0.76 per cent) were trading lower.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 15.20 points at 11,477.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 65.96 points at 38,161.03.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.

Shares of Torrent Power, Reliance Communications, Reliance Power, PNB, Suzlon Energy, CG Power, Reliance Capital, Bank of India, Union Bank India, SAIL, Reliance Infra, Sun Pharma, PFC, Aditya Birla Capital, South Indian Bank and JP Associates were among the most traded shares on the NSE.