The broader markets, however, outperformed the benchmark indices -- BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended up 0.6%-1%.
Karnataka proposes to auction 15 of its Category-C mines to end-users.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Though the current National Democratic Alliance government has not endorsed the figure, it has not even repudiated it.
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.