Share market update: Infra stocks climb; Suzlon Energy gains 8%

NEW DELHI: Shares of infrastructure companies were trading in the positive zone in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Suzlon Energy (up 8.16 per cent), Reliance Power (up 2.86 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 2.3 per cent), Bharti Infratel Ltd (up 2.0 per cent), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (up 1.83 per cent), NTPC (up 1.72 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 1.44 per cent), Container Corporation of India (up 1.35 per cent), IRB Infrastructure Developers (up 1.34 per cent), CESC (up 1.1 per cent), Tata Power Company (up 0.79 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 0.72 per cent), Siemens (up 0.71 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (up 0.64 per cent), Larsen & Toubro (up 0.63 per cent), Bharti Airtel (up 0.26 per cent) and Torrent Power (up 0.18 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Infrastructure index was trading 0.96 per cent up at 3293.45 around 11:54am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 105.65 points at 12137.15 , while the BSE Sensex was up 331.82 points at 41311.44 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 43 were trading in the green, while 7 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, ITC, NALCO, SBI, GAIL, BHEL and Zee Ent. were among the most traded shares on the NSE.