Share market update: Media shares advance; DB Corp climbs 3%

NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the green in Tuesday's afternoon session.

Shares of DB Corp (up 3.42 per cent), Network 18 Fincap (up 3.19 per cent), Sun TV Network (up 2.13 per cent), Balaji Telefilms (up 1.83 per cent), Music Broadcast (up 1.65 per cent), Zee Entertainment (up 1.47 per cent), TV18 Broadcast (up 1.01 per cent), Saregama India (up 0.86 per cent), TV Today Network (up 0.74 per cent), Inox Leisure (up 0.51 per cent) and Jagran Prakashan (up 0.08 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Media index was trading 0.93 per cent up at 1801.35 around 11:44 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 5.35 points at 12334.9 , while the BSE Sensex was down 11.73 points at 41,847.96.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Tata Global Bev, SAIL, Tata Motors, SBI, Vedanta , GAIL, JSPL and GMR Infra were among the most traded shares on the NSE.