NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the red in Tuesday's session.

Shares of Tata Consultancy (down 3.88 per cent) , NIIT Technologies (down 2.18 per cent) , Tech Mahindra (down 1.49 per cent) , Info Edge (India) (down 1.37 per cent) , Infosys (down 1.03 per cent) , Wipro (down 0.74 per cent) , Mindtree (down 0.53 per cent) and HCL Technologies (down 0.45 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty IT index was trading 1.74 per cent down at 13601.55 around 02:06PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 2.15 points at 9041.4, while the BSE Sensex was down 11.95 points at 30660.64.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank Ltd., JSPL, ITC, Tata Power, Adani Power, SBI, ICICI Bank and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.