Shares of
(down 9.99 per cent), LIC Housing Finance (down 6.5 per cent), Apollo Hospitals Enterprises (down 6.23 per cent), Bharat Heavy Electricals (down 6.04 per cent) and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd (down 6.02 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
While The New Indian Assurance (up 11.94 per cent), IDFC First Bank (up 7.31 per cent), Natco Pharma (up 2.95 per cent), Crisil (up 2.4 per cent) and Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail (up 1.65 per cent) were among the top gainers.
The S&P BSE MidCap index was trading 1.85 per cent down at 19998.66 around 02:41PM.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 148.45 points at 14970.5, while the BSE Sensex was down 462.83 points at 50861.86.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 were trading in the green, while 41 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, PNB, , Central Bank of India and Bank of Maharashtra were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of The New India Assurance, Rossari Biotech, IDFC First Bank, Redington and Karur Vysya Bank hit their fresh 52week high in today’s trade, while hit fresh 52 week low in trade.