Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE were: APL Apollo Tubes, Astral Poly Technik, Blue Star, Eveready Industries, Greenply Industries, Hindustan Copper, JK Paper, NBCC (India), Radico Khaitan, Supreme Industries, Vedanta and Religare Enterprises.
Overall, 44 shares were trading in green in Nifty50 index, while 6 were trading in red in the afternoon trade.
In the Nifty 50 index, M&M, ONGC, UPL , Titan Company and Hero MotoCorp were among top gainers, while Bharti Airtel, SBI Life, Bajaj Auto, RIL and Bajaj Finance were trading in red.
The BSE Sensex was trading 564.37 points up at 49664.36. Traders were seen piling up position in Trading, Rubber, Fertilisers, Diversified and Mining sectors, while selling were visible in Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Electric/Electronics, Apparels and Retail sectors.
