NEW DELHI: JP Associates (number of shares traded: 2.06 crore) was leading the pack of most traded stocks on NSE during Friday's session. Reliance Communications (1.03 crore), YES Bank (0.98 crore), Balrampur Chini (0.78 crore) and JSPL (0.61 crore) were up next. Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (0.56 crore), Punjab National Bank (PNB) (0.54 crore), Adani Power (0.51 crore), State Bank of India (SBI) (0.40 crore) and Bank of Baroda (0.38 crore) too featured among the most traded stocks on NSE. On the other hand, Reliance Industries (RIL) (Rs 321.06 crore) was leading among the most active stocks in value terms. YES Bank (Rs 316.05 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 287.39 crore), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (Rs 207.11 crore), Axis Bank (Rs 191.51 crore), Sun Pharma (Rs 187.66 crore), Aurobindo Pharma (Rs 167.68 crore), HDFC (Rs 143.33 crore), JSPL (Rs 142.09 crore) and Infosys (Rs 141.67 crore) also featured among most active stocks in value terms.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 90 points up at 11,460, while the BSE Sensex was up 250 points at 37,968 around 10:05 am. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were in the green and nine were in the red. Indiabulls Housing Finance, BPCL, PowerGrid, YES Bank and HPCL were among top Nifty gainers. HCL Technologies, Infosys, Bharti Airtel, Tech Mahindra and Hindustan Unilever were among the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.