Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(up 9.75%), Aries Agro Ltd.(up 0.20%) and Madhya Bharat Agro Products Ltd.(up 0.08%) stood among the top gainers.
Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.(down 7.09%), Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.(down 5.95%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 4.73%), Agro Phos India Ltd.(down 3.84%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(down 3.83%), Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.(down 3.56%), National Fertilizers Ltd.(down 3.52%), The Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(down 3.25%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd.(down 3.24%) and Madras Fertilizers Ltd.(down 2.72%) were among the top losers of the day.
The NSE Nifty50 index ended 208.0 points down at 24139.0, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 692.89 points at 78956.03.
Titan Company Ltd.(up 1.89%), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.(up 1.34%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.9%), Tata Consumer Products Ltd.(up 0.69%), Nestle India Ltd.(up 0.47%), HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.47%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(up 0.37%), Britannia Industries Ltd.(up 0.37%), Wipro Ltd.(up 0.3%) and Reliance Industries Ltd.(up 0.21%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.
On the other hand, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(down 3.51%), HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 3.43%), Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 2.85%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 2.49%), Bajaj Finance Ltd.(down 2.17%), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 2.11%), Tata Steel Ltd.(down 2.1%), Grasim Industries Ltd.(down 2.02%), Adani Enterprises