MPhasis(up 1.64 per cent) and Mindtree(up 0.31 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Infosys(down 2.23 per cent), Coforge(down 1.18 per cent), L&T Technology(down 0.94 per cent), Tata Consultancy(down 0.94 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro Infotech(down 0.49 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty IT index was down 0.88 per cent at 35168.35 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 43.7 points at 17372.85, while the BSE Sensex was down 236.43 points at 58229.46.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
Shares of Vedanta, Vodafone Idea, Trident Ltd, YES Bank and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Steel Cast, Latent View Analytics Ltd., Jindal Worldwide, Raymond and Tata Tele hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nidan Laboratories And Healthcare Ltd., Supreme Infra, Destiny Logistics & Infra Ltd., Laxmi Cotspin and Aarti Drugs hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.