Share market update: BSE Power index up; Adani Power rises 2%

NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was up in Friday's morning session.

Shares of Adani Power (up 2.36 per cent), Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 2.09 per cent), NTPC (up 1.91 per cent) and Tata Power Company (up 1.72 per cent) were trading higher.

Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.66 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 0.88 per cent), ABB India (up 0.85 per cent) and GMR Infrastructure (up 0.67 per cent) too were trading in the green.

The S&P BSE Power index was trading 1.39 per cent up at 1910.98 around 11:10 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 49.85 points at 10,897.75 while the BSE Sensex was up 179.03 points at 36,823.45.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, Indiabulls Ventures, Dish TV India, DLF, Coal India, ONGC and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.