Madhya Bharat Agro Products(up 5.31%), ZUARIAGRO(up 4.99%), G S F C(up 3.35%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (up 3.03%), KRISHANA(up 1.70%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(up 0.43%) and Coromandel International(up 0.23%) stood among the top gainers.
Madras Fertlizers(down 3.70%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 2.89%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 1.80%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.54%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 1.52%), Aries Agro(down 1.46%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(down 1.19%), Agro Phos(down 0.32%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 0.28%) and Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 0.24%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 106.5 points down at 17748.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 410.28 points at 59667.6.
Power Grid Corporation of India(up 4.52%), Coal India(up 4.49%), NTPC(up 4.02%), Indian Oil Corporation(up 3.62%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(up 2.14%), JSW Steel(up 1.88%), Titan Company Ltd(up 1.87%), Kotak Mahindra Bank(up 1.71%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries(up 1.58%) and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 1.57%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Bharti Airtel(down 3.65%), Tech Mahindra(down 3.44%), Bajaj Finance(down 3.23%), Divis Laboratories(down 3.01%), Bajaj Finserv(down 2.67%), Wipro(down 2.19%), HCL Technologies(down 2.02%), Infosys(down 1.98%), ICICI Bank(down 1.76%) and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(down 1.54%) closed in the red.
