Top gainers included Newon Towers (up 4.95%), Indianwind Energy (up 3.65%), Kalpataru Projects International (up 2.74%), Hitachi Energy India (up 2.58%), Jyoti Structures (up 1.33%), Torrent Power (up 1.13%), Reliance Power (up 0.98%), Orient Green Power (up 0.76%), Transformers and Rectifiers (India) (up 0.72%) and India Power Corporation (up 0.66%).
Among the top losers were KKV Agro Powers Ltd (down 5.00%), Power and Instrumentation (Gujarat) Ltd (down 2.01%), JSW Energy Ltd (down 1.16%), GE T&D India Ltd (down 0.89%), Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd (down 0.88%), Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (down 0.85%), Adani Green Energy Ltd (down 0.77%), KEC International Ltd (down 0.74%), NTPC Ltd (down 0.54%) and Adani Power Ltd (down 0.48%).
At around 9:59 am, the NSE Nifty50 index was trading at 23,592.55, up 54.71 points, while the 30-stock BSE Sensex was trading at 77,553.33, up 212.25 points.
UltraTech Cement (up 1.55 per cent), Axis Bank (up 1.09 per cent), Hindalco Industries (up 1.03 per cent), HDFC Bank (up 0.97 per cent), State Bank of India (up 0.76 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (up 0.68 per cent), Britannia Industries (up 0.62 per cent), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises (up 0.61 per cent), Bajaj Auto (up 0.6 per cent) and HDFC Life Insurance (up 0.54 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, LTI Mindtree Ltd. (down 0.69%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (down 0.68%), Grasim Industries Ltd. (down 0.65%), Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (down 0.59%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (down 0.57%), NTPC Ltd. (down 0.57%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (down 0.53%), Asian Paints Ltd. (down 0.5%), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. (down 0.49%) and Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (down 0.49%) were among the decliners.
