NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading higher in Monday's afternoon session.
Shares of DB Corp (up 3.53 per cent), TV18 Broadcast (up 3.24 per cent), Network 18 Media & Investments (up 2.82 per cent) and Eros International Media (up 2.75 per cent) were the top performers in the index.
Dish TV India (up 2.57 per cent),
PVR (up 0.91 per cent), Sun TV Network (up 0.76 per cent) and Hathway Cable & Datacom (up 0.52 per cent) too were trading with gains.
The Nifty Media index was trading 0.07 per cent up at 2498.35 around 02:12 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 102 points at 11,725.90 while the BSE Sensex was up 394.05 points at 39,066.96.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.
Shares of Bank of Baroda, Tata Motors, SAIL, NTPC, YES Bank, BHEL, Ashok Leyland, BEL, Indian Oil Corp, ONGC, SBI, Hindalco Inds., Indiabulls Housing Finance and DLF were among the most traded shares on the NSE.