Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(up 2.71%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(up 1.97%), Agro Phos(up 1.73%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(up 1.43%) and KRISHANA(up 1.16%) stood among the top gainers.
G S F C(down 5.51%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (down 5.38%), Sikko Industries(down 4.99%), Bohra Industries(down 4.76%), Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(down 4.27%), National Fertilizer(down 3.70%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 3.07%), Aries Agro(down 2.87%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 2.63%) and Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 2.10%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 133.85 points down at 17764.8, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 372.32 points at 59636.01.
State Bank of India(up 1.13%), Power Grid Corporation of India(up 0.76%), Indian Oil Corporation(up 0.7%), HDFC Bank(up 0.56%), Divis Laboratories(up 0.46%), Reliance Industries(up 0.38%), Hindustan Unilever(up 0.35%) and ICICI Bank(up 0.21%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Tata Motors(down 3.86%), Mahindra & Mahindra(down 3.22%), Tech Mahindra(down 3.13%), Larsen & Toubro(down 2.86%), HCL Technologies(down 2.8%), Tata Steel(down 2.74%), Eicher Motors(down 2.65%), IndusInd Bank(down 2.47%), Hero MotoCorp(down 2.35%) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation(down 2.05%) closed in the red.
