Indian benchmark indices pared most of the early losses amid some buying seen in index heavyweights including Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Eternal Ltd. State Bank of India and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd among others.

At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 81341.36 down by -109.65 points or by -0.13 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24671.75 down by -78.95 points or by -0.32 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 81403.88 and intraday low of 80654.26 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 24717.55 and intraday low of 24526.15

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1481.30,+3.42%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 3022.90,+1.49%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 241.40,+1.11%), State Bank of India (Rs. 820.90,+1.05%), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Rs. 292.80,+1.00%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1553.30,-1.32%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 159.10,-1.18%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 11084.00,-1.01%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 3521.40,-0.92%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1929.95,-0.75%), among others.

Realty index was at 7528.14 up by 168.71 points or by 2.29%. Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (Rs. 1154.40,+5.29%), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. (Rs. 1529.95,+4.25%), Anant Raj Ltd. (Rs. 577.20,+2.79%), Phoenix Mills Ltd. (Rs. 1581.20,+2.70%), DLF Ltd. (Rs. 812.65,+1.93%),.

IT index was at 36683.37 down by -210.16 points or by -0.57%. Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. (Rs. 1240.30,-3.33%), Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 5461.45,-3.10%), MphasiS Ltd. (Rs. 2489.10,-2.75%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 822.85,-1.43%), Netweb Technologies India Ltd. (Rs. 1969.40,-1.42%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4295 , shares advanced were 2166 while 1909 shares declined and 220 were unchanged.