Share market update: Media shares rise; Dish TV jumps 5%

NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading with gains in Thursday's afternoon session.

Shares of Dish TV India (up 4.94 per cent) , TV Today Network (up 2.65 per cent) , Inox Leisure (up 2.02 per cent) , Jagran Prakashan (up 1.49 per cent) , Navneet Education Ltd (up 1.47 per cent) , PVR (up 1.06 per cent) , TV18 Broadcast (up 0.85 per cent) , Sun TV Network (up 0.65 per cent) , DB Corp (up 0.61 per cent) and Zee Entertainment (up 0.03 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Media index was trading 0.83 per cent up at 1379.05 around 12:12PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 123.65 points at 10553.7, while the BSE Sensex was up 437.49 points at 35851.94.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 11 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, SBI, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, RBL Bank Ltd. and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.