NEW DELHI: The Nifty Energy index was trading lower in Monday's afternoon session.
Shares of GAIL (India) (down 1.85 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 1.5 per cent), Power Grid Corporation of India (down 1.35 per cent), HPCL (down 1.27 per cent), NTPC (down 1 per cent), Oil - Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.89 per cent), Reliance Industries (down 0.81 per cent) and Adani Transmissions (down 0.42 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Energy index was trading 0.86 per cent down at 15540.5 around 02:33 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 88.10 points at 12160.15 , while the BSE Sensex was down 289.59 points at 41323.6.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 15 were trading in the green, while 35 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, JSPL, SBI, SAIL and GMR Infra were among the most traded shares on the NSE.