NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading higher.

Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 6.88%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(up 6.08%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(up 5.11%), Madras Fertilizers Ltd. (up 3.51%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (up 2.49%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.91%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 1.76%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (up 1.73%), Bohra Industries Ltd.(up 1.61%) and Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd.(up 1.44%) were among the top gainers.

Sikko Industries Ltd.(down 1.46%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(down 1.21%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.(down 1.12%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(down 0.78%), Krishana Phoschem Ltd.(down 0.68%) and Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.(down 0.54%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 105.1 points up at 22145.8, while the 30- share BSE Sensex was up 302.1 points at 72728.74 at around 11:20AM.

Grasim Industries Ltd.(up 2.79%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 1.91%), Bajaj Finserv Ltd. (up 1.79%), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(up 1.72%), ITC Ltd.(up 1.71%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.67%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 1.62%), Bajaj Finance Ltd.(up 1.6%), ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 1.6%) and Cipla Ltd.(up 1.51%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.(down 1.15%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 0.92%), Wipro Ltd.(down 0.7%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 0.69%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 0.47%), LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 0.44%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 0.43%), Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.4%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(down 0.19%) and Infosys Ltd.(down 0.12%) were trading in the red.