NEW DELHI: Around 15 stocks rose to touch their 52-week highs on NSE in Monday's session.

Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs were Alembic Pharmaceuticals , Bafna Pharmaceuticals , Alchemist, Geekay Wires, New Delhi Television Limited, Educomp Solutions , Sujana Universal Industries,Mittal Life Style and Ruchi Soya Industries.

Benchmark NSE Nifty index was trading 291.40 points down at 8845.45 while the BSE Sensex was trading 1012.37 points down at 30085.36.

Overall, 6 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 44 were trading in red.

In the Nifty 50 index, Cipla, Bharti Infratel, Infosys, ITC and TCS were among the top gainers.

While ZEEL, IndusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Maruti Suzuki were trading in red.