NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was trading higher in Tuesday's afternoon session. Shares of NTPC (up 1.68 per cent), Thermax (up 1.52 per cent), Adani Power (up 1.44 per cent) and Kalpataru Power Transmissions (up 1.11 per cent) were the top gainers in the index. Siemens (up 1.10 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.95 per cent), Torrent Power (up 0.81 per cent) and Adani Transmission (up 0.77 per cent) too were trading with gains.

The S-P BSE Power index was trading 1.01 per cent up at 2032.74 around 11:33 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 37.60 points at 11,625.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 124.06 points at 39,020.77.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, ICICI Bank, Spicejet, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, Adani Power, Federal Bank and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.