NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications with over 3.35 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Friday. Shares of PFC (number of shares traded: 1.31 crore), YES Bank (number of shares traded: 0.93 crore), Kwality (number of shares traded: 0.84 crore), Jaypee Infra (number of shares traded: 0.59 crore), PNB (number of shares traded: 0.52 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.50 crore), Vakrangee (number of shares traded: 0.47 crore), Sun Pharma (number of shares traded: 0.46 crore) and Tata Motors (number of shares traded: 0.45 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE. HCL Tech (Rs 283.53 crore) was leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by Sun Pharma (Rs 192.95 crore) , Indiabulls Housing Finance (Rs 179.91 crore) , Axis Bank (Rs 175.36 crore) , YES Bank (Rs 157.79 crore) , Maruti Suzuki (Rs 147.04 crore) , Aurobindo Pharma (Rs 143.38 crore) , RIL (Rs 128.71 crore) , Dr.

Reddys Lab (Rs 125.34 crore) and PFC (Rs 114.52 crore). The NSE Nifty index was trading 25.9 points up at 10,627.05, while BSE Sensex was up 156.56 points at 35468.69 around 10:04 am on Friday.

In the Nifty index, Zee Entertainment Enterprises (up 2.99 per cent), Cipla (up 2.25 per cent), Dr.

Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.85 per cent), Asian Paints (up 1.30 per cent) and ICICI Bank (up 1.22 per cent) were among the top gainers.

HCL Technologies (down 6.93 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 4.97 per cent), Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 1.94 per cent), Wipro (down 1.93 per cent) and NTPC (down 1.36 per cent) were the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.