NEW DELHI: Around 17 stocks rose to touch their 52-week highs on NSE in Tuesday's session.

Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs were Alchemist, Aarti Drugs, Aurobindo Pharma, Lupin, Coromandel International, Cipla, Educomp Solutions , The India Cements and JMT Auto.

Benchmark NSE Nifty index was trading 56.65 points up at 9095.90.

Overall, 39 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 11 were trading in red.

In the Nifty 50 index, JSW Steel, Titan Company , Eicher Motors, UltraTech Cement and IndusInd Bank were among top gainers.

While Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finserv, TCS, Zee Ent. and Hero MotoCorp were trading in red.

The BSE Sensex was trading 179.59 points up at 30852.18.