Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(up 0.36 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.19 per cent) and TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 0.07 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 2.69 per cent), Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd.(down 1.48 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(down 1.31 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 1.03 per cent) and Bajaj Auto Ltd.(down 0.93 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.66 per cent at 16388.75 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 60.35 points at 19482.3, while the BSE Sensex was down 150.88 points at 65246.74.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 39 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, JP Power, Suzlon Energy and IRB Infra Dev.
were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Macpower CNC Machine, CreditAccess Grameen, BSE, Zodiac Energy and Ipca Labs hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Gangotri Text, Digjam L, Diamines Chem, Tarsons Products and Anisha Impex hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.