NEW DELHI: Most power stocks were looking bright in afternoon session on Tuesday.The BSE Power index was trading 0.91 per cent up at 1,937 around 12:20 pm, with BHEL (up 4.47 per cent) as the top gainer.Suzlon Energy (up 4.44 per cent), CESC (up 3.50 per cent), KEC International (up 2.59 per cent), ABB India (up 2.53 per cent), NHPC (up 2.37 per cent), JSW Energy (up 2.21 per cent) and Torrent Power (up 2.10 per cent) too were trading higher.Adani Transmission, Siemens, Thermax, GMR Infrastructure, Tata Power Company, Adani Power, CG Power and Industrial Solutions and Reliance Infrastructure climbed up to 1 per cent.However, shares of NTPC (down 0.54 per cent) were in the red, while those of Power Grid Corporation of India (up 0.08 per cent) were trading flat.Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 98 points at 36,817, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 39 points at 11,124.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 22 stocks were advancing, while 9 were declining.Vedanta, Larsen Toubro and Maruti were leading among Sensex gainers.