Market Now: Power stocks up; Suzlon Energy, Adani Power top gainers

NEW DELHI: Most of the power stocks were trading with gains during Tuesday's trade, keeping the sectoral index in the green.

The BSE Power index was trading 0.42 per cent up at 2,180 around 11:50 am (IST).

Shares of Suzlon Energy (up 2.65 per cent), Adani Power (up 2.27 per cent), KEC International (up 2.12 per cent), PTC India (up 2.01 per cent), Reliance Power (up 1.79 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (up 1.79 per cent), CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 1.55 per cent), NHPC (up 1.50 per cent), CESC (up 1.33 per cent), Siemens (up 1.22 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (up 0.86 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.85 per cent) were among the top gainers in the power index.


However, shares of NTPC (down 1.02 per cent) and ABB India (down 0.29 per cent) were in the red in the power index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 97 points at 34,015, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 37 points at 10,458.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.