Shares of Vakrangee (number of shares traded: 2.14 crore) were among most active stocks in terms of volume on the National Stock Exchange in early trade on Friday.
It was followed by KSK (1.25 crore) and Reliance Communications (1.03 crore).JP Associates, Punjab National Bank (PNB), ICICI Bank, HFCL, PC Jeweller, SAIL and Sun Pharma too joined the list of the most active stocks in volume terms.
In the Nifty index, Dr Reddy's Laboratories (up 3.01 per cent), Cipla (up 2.83 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.96 per cent), UPL (up 1.67 per cent), Lupin (up 1.66 per cent), ICICI Bank (up 1.25 per cent), Bajaj Finance (up 1.12 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 1.10 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 1.08 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 1.00 per cent), Titan Company (up 0.94 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.71 per cent), Tech Mahindra (up 0.64 per cent), Infosys (up 0.61 per cent), Coal India (up 0.35 per cent), Tata Motors (up 0.25 per cent) and Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (up 0.20 per cent) were among the top gainers.On the other hand, NTPC (down 1.64 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 1.28 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 1.17 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 1.05 per cent), Grasim Industries (down 1.04 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 0.91 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 0.84 per cent), Asian Paints (down 0.73 per cent), Hindalco Industries (down 0.63 per cent), Mahindra Mahindra (down 0.57 per cent) and Hindustan Unilever (down 0.56 per cent) were trading in the red.