Among the components of the BSE Telecommunication index, Bharti Hexacom Ltd (up 1.81%), Sterlite Technologies Ltd (up 1.47%), Bharti Airtel Ltd (up 1.26%), Railtel Corporation of India Ltd (up 0.45%), Vindhya Telelinks Ltd (up 0.07%), and Optiemus Infracom Ltd (up 0.07%), were the top gainers.
On the other hand, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd (down 1.45%), ITI Ltd (down 1.14%), and HFCL Ltd (down 0.71%) turned lower.
At 09:42 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 95.93 or 0.18% at 52659.37.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 15.65 points or 0.1% at 15737.49.
The Nifty 50 index was up 12.1 points or 0.05% at 24554.6.
The BSE Sensex index was up 36.3 points or 0.04% at 80773.81.
On BSE,1698 shares were trading in green, 1265 were trading in red and 163 were unchanged.
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