NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications with over 1.21 crore shares changing hands was leading among most traded stocks on NSE on Thursday. Shares of Ashok Leyland (number of shares traded: 0.86 crore), YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.67 crore), HCC (number of shares traded: 0.60 crore), South Indian Bank (number of shares traded: 0.53 crore), GMR Infra (number of shares traded: 0.53 crore), Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.34 crore), Rashtriya Chemical Fertilizers (number of shares traded: 0.30 crore), Praj Industries (number of shares traded: 0.28 crore) and Vedanta (number of shares traded: 0.27 crore) also featured among most traded stocks on NSE. YES Bank (Rs 125.63 crore) was leading pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by Axis Bank (Rs 115.33 crore), IndusInd Bank (Rs 113.65 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 90.36 crore), Ashok Leyland (Rs 81.92 crore), TCS (Rs 79.38 crore), Infosys (Rs 77.83 crore), Tata Steel (Rs 76.92 crore), ITC (Rs 68.75 crore) and HDFC (Rs 63.88 crore). The NSE Nifty index was trading 28.45 points down at 10,826.70, while BSE Sensex was down 70.79 points at 36,142.12 around 09:38 am on Thursday.

In Nifty index, Tata Motors (up 1.20 per cent), UPL (up 0.86 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 0.66 per cent), Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (up 0.56 per cent) and Cipla (up 0.52 per cent) were among top gainers.

While Bharti Infratel (down 2.50 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 2.13 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.78 per cent), IndusInd Bank (down 1.39 per cent) and Axis Bank (down 1.25 per cent) were top losers in Nifty pack of stocks.