Share market update: Infra stocks jump; RInfra gains over 3%

NEW DELHI: Shares of infrastructure companies were trading in the green in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Reliance Infrastructure (up 3.50 per cent), Container Corporation of India (up 1.65 per cent), NCC (up 1.56 per cent) and IRB Infrastructure Developers (up 1.26 per cent) were trading in the positive zone.

CESC (up 1.25 per cent), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (up 1.18 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 1.08 per cent) and Engineers India (up 1.04 per cent) too were trading in the green.


The Nifty Infrastructure index was trading 0.63 per cent up at 3220.60 around 12:28 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 77.15 points at 11,418.30 while the BSE Sensex was up 287.98 points at 38,502.45.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 were trading in the green, while 13 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Tata Motors, RBL Bank, Ashok Leyland, SAIL, JSPL, Bank of Baroda and ONGC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.