The broader markets were firm with mid-caps and small-caps gaining 1-1.4 per cent on the BSE.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 90 points at 19,429 after hitting an intra-day low of 19,398 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 40 points at 5,881 after touching an intra-day low of 5,871.
Keep exit plans handy, D-day could be the second week of August, writes Sonali Ranade in Market Notes.
The industry's reactions to the Budget have been mixed.
Markets snapped their 8-day winning streak.
While the government had in June approved a new formula for pricing of all domestically produced natural gas, the Cabinet yesterday allowed the same principles to also be applied to Reliance Industries' currently producing fields in KG-D6 block subject to certain conditions.
For the seven months since February 2014, the benchmark index surged nearly 27%.
'I have tried to make it easier for the small scale entrepreneur to do business and cut through the red tape.'
We're behaving like frogs in warm water. We swim around untroubled, cooled by our faith in Indian liberal democracy. We are blind to the bubbles popping around us, the bubbles warning of fundamental changes, says Mihir S Sharma.
'Our mandate is to work in a transparent manner, keeping two objectives in mind - consumer interest and growth of the telecom sector.'
Finance Minister must be hoping that Indians get over gold-addiction.
The Congress president questioned the government over unfulfilled promises and questioned the Rafale deal.
Single window clearances for realty must.
'One big problem for the RSS is, while they spread their ideology of hard, Hindu-ised Indian nationalism, the absence of their own pantheon of modern nationalist giants. They missed out on the freedom movement quite comprehensively, in some ways comparable to the Muslim League and latter-day Communists. They have to find heroes elsewhere.' 'They borrow who they can from the Congress, like Madan Mohan Malviya and Sardar Patel, and then steal the entire lot of revolutionaries, from Bhagat Singh to Netaji, never mind that many of them were extreme leftists.'
2015 is set for a lot of changes - and some that we would like to happen
The staggered increase in kerosene rate may not have the same impact of freeing up the fuel price as for diesel.
'Will 'Make in India' be able to harness the demographic dividend so it does not become a disaster?' 'Will 'Digital India' live up to the lofty promises the government and private sector made as part of its recent launch?'
The 'AIADMK symbol issue' may be a fit case for the courts and the legislature to provide for a new law for application in similar fluid, dynamic political situations, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The dollar is king in an intermediate correction, says Sonali Ranade
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on how to pick the right international education.
Choose a career that motivates you and one that you are good at, says Prof RSS Mani, education consultant and vice president-institutional development, ITM Group of Institutions.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy tells rediff.com's Shobha Warrier why the UPA lost in the general elections, the decline of the Left and what he expects from the Centre.
Spruce up your CV and seek professional advise, says Prof RSS Mani of ITM Group of Institutions.
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