NEW DELHI: Shares of PSUs were trading lower in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of NMDC Ltd (down 8.33 per cent), National Aluminium Company (down 4.73 per cent), Steel Authority of India (down 4.44 per cent), NTPC (down 3.58 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 3.16 per cent), HPCL (down 3.09 per cent), New Indian Assurance (down 3.01 per cent), General Insurance (down 2.72 per cent), Container Corporation of India (down 2.23 per cent), REC (down 2.21 per cent), NHPC (down 2.05 per cent), Oil India (down 2.04 per cent), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (down 1.75 per cent), Power Finance Corporation (down 1.54 per cent), Coal India (down 0.86 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.72 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 0.46 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.12 per cent) and Bharat Electronics (down 0.06 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty PSE index was trading 1.7 per cent down at 2869.05 around 11:53 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 114.25 points at 11931.55 , while the BSE Sensex was down 356.19 points at 40699.50.

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

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, TV18 Broadcast, Tata Motors, BHEL, SBI, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, Muthoot Finance and ITC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.