Bandhan Bank Ltd.(up 3.11 per cent), Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 1.75 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(up 1.72 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.(up 1.4 per cent) and IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 1.15 per cent) were among the top gainers.
State Bank of India(down 0.54 per cent), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.36 per cent) and IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 0.26 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Bank index was up 0.2 per cent at 51501.8 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 9.75 points at 23525.75, while the BSE Sensex was up 3.37 points at 77340.96.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy, Hind Const Co and Rashtriya Chemicals were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Mohit Inds, Shradha Infraproject, FACT, National Fertilizers and Rashtriya Chemicals hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Keerti Knowledge, SecUR Credentials, Divgi Torqtransfer, Lakshmi Precis and GIR Natureview hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.