NEW DELHI: Bank shares were trading in the green with the Nifty Bank index trading 0.59 per cent up at 25,301.15 around 10:45 am on Thursday.

Shares of YES Bank (up 7.47 per cent), State Bank of India (up 2.24 per cent), RBL Bank (up 1.69 per cent) and Punjab National Bank (up 1.29 per cent), were among the top performers.

Axis Bank (up 0.84 per cent), Federal Bank (up 0.60 per cent), IDFC Bank (up 0.58 per cent) and IndusInd Bank (up 0.56 per cent) too were trading in the green. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 14.20 points at 10,400.8 while BSE Sensex was up 76.77 points at 34,518.82 at that time.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Tata Motors, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Indian Oil Corp, BEL, Vedanta, BHEL, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Larsen Toubro and Axis Bank were among the most traded shares on the National Stock Exchange on Thursday.