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

Shares of NIIT Technologies (down 1.65 per cent) , MPhasis (down 1.55 per cent) , Tech Mahindra (down 1.07 per cent) , HCL Technologies (down 0.5 per cent) , Just Dial (down 0.49 per cent) , Wipro (down 0.27 per cent) , Mindtree (down 0.11 per cent) and Info Edge (India) (down 0.07 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty IT index was trading 0.06 per cent down at 14745.15 around 11:47AM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 61.10 points at 10363.2, while the BSE Sensex was up 242.44 points at 35158.24.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, SBI, BHEL, ONGC and IDBI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.