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Share market update: Media shares gain; PVR climbs 3%

NEW DELHI: Media shares were trading in the green in Friday’s afternoon session.

Shares of Balaji Telefilms (up 5.26 per cent) , PVR (up 2.83 per cent) , Zee Entertainment (up 1.92 per cent) , Hathway Cable & Datacom (up 1.57 per cent) , Dish TV India (up 1.52 per cent) , TV18 Broadcast (up 1.18 per cent) , Jagran Prakashan (up 1.09 per cent) , Sun TV Network (up 0.9 per cent) , DB Corp (up 0.45 per cent) , TV Today Network (up 0.27 per cent) and Inox Leisure (up 0.19 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Media index was trading 1.4 per cent up at 1822.95 around 11:48 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 70.65 points at 12197.2 , while the BSE Sensex was up 239.33 points at 41403.09 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 37 were trading in the green, while 11 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, PNB, SBI, IDFC First Bank Ltd., JSPL, SAIL and Union Bank India were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Source: Economic Times