NEW DELHI: Telcom shares were trading on a mixed note with the SP BSE Telecom index down 0.03 per cent at 997.80 around 02:05 pm on Thursday. Shares of ITI (up 3.29 per cent), OnMobile Global (up 2.73 per cent), Reliance Communications (up 1.96 per cent) and Aksh Optifibre (up 1.66 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

GTL Infrastructure (down 3.61 per cent), Bharti Airtel (down 1.43 per cent), Himachal Futuristic Communications (down 0.94 per cent) and GTL (down 0.53 per cent) were trading lower.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 74.45 points at 10,804.30 while the BSE Sensex was up 258.63 points at 35,908.57.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Communications, JP Associates, PC Jeweller, Tata Power, YES Bank, CG Power and Industries, Bank of India, PNB, BPCL, Suzlon Energy, Jet Airways, Infibeam Avenues, Spicejet, Reliance Power, NCC and PFC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.