Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(up 3.09%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(up 1.94%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.42%), Nestle India Ltd.(up 1.22%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(up 0.65%), Honasa Consumer Ltd.(up 0.12%) and Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(up 0.02%) stood among the top gainers.
Parag Milk Foods Ltd.(down 6.10%), AWL Agri Business Ltd.(down 5.68%), Varun Beverages Ltd.(down 4.54%), Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd.(down 4.50%), Dodla Dairy Ltd.(down 3.74%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(down 3.61%), Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(down 3.61%), Heritage Foods Ltd.(down 2.92%), LT Foods Ltd.(down 2.85%) and Hindustan Foods Ltd.(down 2.52%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 81.56 points down at 24379.6, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 155.77 points at 80641.07.
Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 2.79%), Bharti Airtel Ltd.(up 1.88%), Tata Steel Ltd.(up 1.67%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.56%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.42%), JSW Steel Ltd.(up 1.26%), Nestle India Ltd.(up 1.22%), Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 1.0%), Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(up 0.99%) and HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.67%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Adani Enterprises Ltd.(down 4.14%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(down 3.0%), Trent Ltd.(down 2.73%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 2.49%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 2.21%), Cipla Ltd.(down 2.05%), State Bank of India(down 2.02%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 2.02%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.(down 1.96%) and NTPC Ltd.(down 1.96%) closed in the red.