NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading in the positive zone with the SP BSE Telecom index up 0.72 per cent at 989.64 on Tuesday.
Shares of Himachal Futuristic Communications (up 7.16 per cent), Sterlite Technologies (up 4.81 per cent), Tejas Networks (up 3.45 per cent) and OnMobile Global (up 2.31 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Vodafone Idea (up 1.79 per cent), Aksh Optifibre (up 1.20 per cent), Reliance Communications (up 0.77 per cent) and Bharti Infratel (up 0.35 per cent) too were trading higher.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 3.25 points at 10,885.1 while the BSE Sensex was down 6.62 points at 36,263.45.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.
Shares of Reliance Communications, PC Jeweller, JP Associates, Infibeam Avenues, PNB, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank, IDFC Bank, Union Bank India, HFCL, PFC, Bank of India, BHEL, Tata Motors, Indian Oil Corp and Infosys were among the most traded shares on the NSE.