Stock market update: Sugar stocks advance; Vishwaraj Sugar jumps 7%

NEW DELHI: Shares of cement stocks were trading with gains in Tuesday's morning session.

Shares of Vishwaraj Sugar Industries (up 6.79 per cent), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries (up 2.06 per cent), Balrampur Chini Mills (up 1.65 per cent), EID Parry (up 1.57 per cent) and Dhampur Sugar Mills (up 1.52 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Magadh Sugar (down 0.48 per cent) and Mawana Sugars (down 0.31 per cent) were among the top losers.


The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 69.35 points up at 12,123.3, while the 30share BSE Sensex was up 248.45 points at 41,187.17 at around 09:51 am.

Vedanta (up 2.55 per cent), Yes Bank (up 2.03 per cent), Tata Steel (up 1.92 per cent), Infosys (up 1.75 per cent) and Tata Motors (DVR) (up 1.58 per cent) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.68 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 0.43 per cent), NTPC (down 0.35 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (down 0.34 per cent) were trading in the red.