NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications with over 4.47 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday. Shares of YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.83 crore), Ashok Leyland (number of shares traded: 0.79 crore), Idea Cellular (number of shares traded: 0.50 crore), Sun Pharma (number of shares traded: 0.45 crore), Adani Power (number of shares traded: 0.38 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.37 crore), Infibeam Avenues (number of shares traded: 0.35 crore), Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.33 crore) and JP Associates (number of shares traded: 0.33 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE. Sun Pharma (Rs 199.15 crore) was also leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by YES Bank (Rs 144.28 crore) , Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 127.05 crore) , Bharat Forge (Rs 101.18 crore) , HDFC (Rs 84.65 crore) , Ashok Leyland (Rs 83.40 crore) , RIL (Rs 82.30 crore) , Reliance Communications (Rs 76.55 crore) , TCS (Rs 75.31 crore) and Maruti Suzuki (Rs 73.65 crore). The NSE Nifty index was trading 71.95 points down at 10,797.55, while BSE Sensex was down 245.01 points at 35,889.3 around 09:45 am on Wednesday.

In the Nifty index, NTPC (up 1.12 per cent), Bharti Infratel (up 1.06 per cent), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 0.79 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.70 per cent) and Adani Ports Special Economic Zone (up 0.32 per cent) were among the top gainers. Hindalco Industries (down 2.19 per cent), Tata Motors (down 2.08 per cent), Titan Company (down 2.04 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 2.03 per cent) and Grasim Industries (down 1.98 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.