NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the positive zone in Tuesday's morning session.

Shares of Tata Elxsi (up 1.62 per cent), Infosys (up 1.32 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 0.91 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (up 0.66 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

NIIT Technologies (up 0.44 per cent), Mindtree (up 0.31 per cent), Oracle Financial Services Software (up 0.29 per cent) and Wipro (up 0.10 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The Nifty IT index was trading 0.57 per cent up at 16,320.50 around 10:05 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 44.55 points at 11,716.70 while the BSE Sensex was up 175.64 points at 39,136.43.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, SAIL, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda, PNB, Tata Steel and Indiabulls Housing Finance were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

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