Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 1.58%) and Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd.(up 1.00%) stood among the top gainers.
Rana Sugars Ltd.(down 3.43%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(down 2.72%), Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.(down 2.58%), Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd.(down 2.27%), Sakthi Sugars Ltd.(down 2.18%), Avadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 1.64%), KM Sugar Mills Ltd.(down 1.55%), Mawana Sugars Ltd.(down 1.39%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(down 1.36%) and Magadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(down 1.28%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 169.61 points down at 24718.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 573.38 points at 81118.6.
Bharat Electronics Ltd.(up 1.76%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 1.47%), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.89%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 0.34%), Wipro Ltd.(up 0.24%), Cipla Ltd.(up 0.16%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.15%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 0.07%) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(up 0.03%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(down 2.83%), State Bank of India(down 1.69%), ITC Ltd.(down 1.69%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.58%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 1.43%), Adani Enterprises Ltd.(down 1.41%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 1.33%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(down 1.22%), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 1.21%) and Eternal Ltd.(down 0.99%) closed in the red.