Kothari Sugars & Chemicals(up 7.06%), Mawana Sugars(up 4.45%), EID Parry(up 3.60%), Ugar Sugar Works(up 2.14%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)(up 1.39%), Dharani Sugars & Chemicals(up 1.37%), AVADHSUGAR(up 1.28%), Rana Sugars(up 1.27%), Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals(up 1.23%) and BAJAJHIND(up 1.09%) stood among the top gainers.
Triveni Engineering & Industries(down 2.14%), MAGADHSUGAR(down 2.06%), Balrampur Chini Mills(down 1.79%), KCP Sugar & Industries(down 1.60%), Vishwaraj Sugar Industries(down 0.91%), Sakthi Sugars(down 0.65%), Uttam Sugar Mills(down 0.62%), Shree Renuka Sugars(down 0.37%) and Dwarikesh Sugar Industries(down 0.33%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 24.3 points down at 18044.25, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 112.16 points at 60433.45.
Mahindra & Mahindra(up 3.8%), Tata Motors(up 1.65%), Hero MotoCorp(up 1.17%), State Bank of India(up 1.13%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(up 1.13%), Divis Laboratories(up 1.12%), Larsen & Toubro(up 0.99%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone(up 0.94%), ICICI Bank(up 0.82%) and Grasim Industries(up 0.81%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Britannia Industries(down 2.58%), HDFC Bank(down 1.75%), Maruti Suzuki(down 1.39%), Power Grid Corporation of India(down 1.37%), JSW Steel(down 1.34%), NTPC(down 1.28%), HDFC(down 1.27%), Bajaj Finance(down 1.25%), Hindalco Industries(down 1.11%) and Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 1.02%) closed in the red.