The market breadth in BSE remains positive with 1,554 shares advancing and 1,196 shares declining.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC and Infosys were the top Sensex gainers.
The 30-share Sensex ended lower by 61 points at 29,122 mark and the 50-share Nifty slipped by 12 points to close at 8,797.
Tata Steel, SBI, L&T and Sun Pharma advanced 2-5% each.
Sensex climbs higher at close, bluechip stocks in focus.
Markets end in the red, midcaps in focus
The 30-share Sensex ended up 12 points at 28,517 while the 50-share Nifty ended nearly unchanged at 8,660.
The Sensex ended up 244 points at 28,504 on strong global cues.
Sensex ends 134.91 pts down at 28,709.87; Nifty falls 44.70 pts at 8,712.05.
'Can the Aam Aadmi Party challenge the BJP? Someday perhaps. But to set him up as a national alternative just now smacks of the very sin that Arvind Kejriwal admits brought him down in 2014 -- arrogance.'
China's economy is in transition, with rising wage costs and massive overcapacity.
'It's not as if power demand is falling. It's that generation has outpaced demand.'
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended in line with their larger counterparts and closed marginally up 0.2% and 0.4%, each
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The govt must fix regulatory hurdles to ensure growth.
'There was a time when I went without salary for about six months,' says Amod Malviya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and currently CTO, Flipkart.
The market breadth ended weak on the BSE with 2,086 shares declining and 893 shares advancing.
Ten trade unions to go on strike to protest against changes in labour laws
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the inflation index would determine the nominal growth figure, and it is better to set modest targets and outperform them.
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