NEW DELHI: The BSE Power index was trading higher in Friday's afternoon session.

Shares of NTPC (up 2.56 per cent), NHPC (up 1.07 per cent), Tata Power Company (up 0.38 per cent) and Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.24 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

ABB India (down 2.01 per cent), Adani Power (down 1.52 per cent), Reliance Infrastructure (down 1.24 per cent) and Adani Transmission (down 0.66 per cent) were traidng with losses.

The S-P BSE Power index was trading 0.61 per cent up at 2008.95 around 11:35 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 111.25 points at 11,485.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 349.18 points at 38,548.28.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 were trading in the green, while 42 were in the red.

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