New India Assurance, Star Health, CDSL surge amid spike in trading activity; check full list

The Indian equity benchmarks were trading on a flat note in noon deals on Thursday, June 18, as losses in index heavyweights like Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Larsen & Toubro, Reliance Industries, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Bharti Airtel were offset by gains in HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Bharat Electronics, Trent and Axis Bank.

As of 12:00 pm, the SENSEX was up 10 points at 77,166 and NIFTY50 index advanced 9 points to 24,095.

On the sectoral front, nine of 15 major sector gauges compiled by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) were trading higher led by the NIFTY PSU Bank index's 0.7% gain. NIFTY Media, Healthcare, Bank and Financial Services indices also rose between 0.2% and 0.5%.

On the flip side, IT, oil & gas and consumer durable shares were witnessing selling pressure.

Trading volume in the stock jumped by 37 times to 4.64 crore shares compared with an average volume of 12.52 lakh shares.

On the BSE, a total of 19 lakh shares changed hands compared with an average volume of 80,000 shares traded daily in the past two weeks.

Trading volume jumped by 6.5 times to 34.63 lakh shares on the NSE compared with an average of 5.33 lakh shares.

On the BSE, 2.02 lakh shares changed hands compared with an average of 1.8 lakh shares traded daily in the past two weeks.

Trading volume in the stock rose 5.6 times to 15.13 lakh shares compared with an average volume of 2.7 lakh shares.

On the BSE, a total of 1.11 lakh shares changed hands compared with an average of 12,000 shares traded daily in the past two weeks.

Volume on NSE jumped 3.6 times to 12.91 lakh shares compared with an average volume of 3.63 lakh shares.