The 50-share NSE Nifty slipped below the 10,700-mark and finished at 10,679.65 -- down 38.40 points, or 0.36 per cent.
Major gainers include L&T, Asian Paints, Vedanta, Tata Steel, Coal India, Infosys, M&M, Adani Ports, Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, HDFC, Power Grid, ONGC, Tata Motors, Sun Pharma, ITC, IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank and SBI
Industry had sought this 3-month extension, specifically for players struggling to collate the information that are required to be disclosed in the GST forms.
Markets at close: Sensex ends in green; Nifty rises to new closing peak.
The Sensex ended at 22,877, higher by 118 points and the Nifty ended at 6840, up 25 points.
India's annual industrial output growth slowed to 4.2 per cent in July compared with an upwardly revised 4.4 per cent growth a month ago, government data showed on Friday.
Industrial production was upwardly revised to 0.5 per cent year-on-year in August from 0.4 per cent earlier.
Retail inflation inches up to 3.77%; IIP growth dips to 3-month low
Maruti Suzuki was the biggest gainer among Sensex scrips, rising 5.89 per cent, followed by M&M up 5.29 per cent.
'India should take up defence manufacturing in a more serious manner and encourage greater private participation.'
The 30-share Sensex ended up 111 points to end at 20,811 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 31 points at 6,186.
'The belief that FDI will shift from China appears to be a strategy of politicians to keep the media busy, chasing irrelevant news to ward off pressure and questions about the government's plans to deal with COVID,' observes Debashis Basu.
The wider NSE Nifty too fell by 20.15 points or 0.19 per cent to end at 10,749.75.
The Sensex posted its biggest single-day jump in over a decade at 1,921 points and investors' wealth soared by a staggering Rs 6.8 lakh crore after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a surprise cut in corporate tax rates on Friday.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 55 points at 25,314 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 11 points at 7,569.
The Sensex advanced 184 points at 26,103 and the Nifty gained 52 points to trade at 7,792.
Coal India was the biggest gainer on both Sensex and Nifty
Within IIP, the capital goods sub-index has contracted for seven continuous months, suggesting investment demand continues to be weak.
A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a score below this mark means contraction
As many as 52 Indian companies raised money from external sources in October, of which $719.52 million was raised through automatic route for which no approval is required from the Reserve Bank of India or the government.
The broader Nifty finished at 10,421.40, up 194.55 points, or 1.90 per cent.
n the broader market, BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices are trading higher by 0.3% each.
SBI was the biggest loser in the Sensex pack, shedding 2.40 per cent, followed by Yes Bank, Bharti Airtel, L&T, Sun Pharma, M&M, ICICI Bank, ONGC, RIL, Asian Paints, Vedanta and HUL, which lost up to 2.37 per cent.
The index had registered a growth of 2.8 per cent in January 2015.
Investor sentiments remained upbeat tracking global developments as the US, China geared up for trade talks due this week.
Major gainers in the Sensex pack were Hero Motocorp, which rallied 7.01 per cent, followed by Bharti Airtel (6.69 per cent), Yes Bank (5.30 per cent), Adani Ports (4.90 per cent), Tata Steel (3.75 per cent) and Bajaj Auto (3.70 per cent).
'If the epidemic is sharply contained in a month or two, we have a huge buying opportunity. 'If not, we are staring at a serious economic crisis, the contours of which we are totally unaware of,' warns Debashis Basu.
According to the Central Statistics Office data, the jump in the retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index was mainly due to rise in prices of kitchen items like vegetables, meat and fish.
Combined net profit of BSE500 companies at $ 63 bn is 2.3% of GDP; global average is 5%.
The 30-share Sensex shed 108 points or 0.4% to close at 21,826 levels after hitting an intra-day low of 21772 and the 50-share Nifty recovered from its day's low of 6,494 to close at 6,512 levels, down 25 points or 0.4%.
As many as 58 companies raised money from automatic route and 8 firms raised via approval route.
In November they had raised $2.19 billion from abroad, according to the Reserve Bank data released on Friday.
India's growth outlook has weakened sharply this year, with a crunch that started with the non-banking finance institutions spreading to retail businesses, car-makers, home sales and heavy industries.
The NSE Nifty settled the day 93.20 points or 0.88 per cent lower at 10,452.30 after shuttling between 10,612.90 and 10,434.05.
The NSE Nifty settled the day 38.85 points or 0.37 per cent lower at 10,500.90 after shuttling between 10,590.55 and 10,456.65, intra-day.
Jigar Shah, chief executive officer, Maybank Kim Eng Securities is not certain that the DMart listing would trigger a re-rating of the Indian retailing sector.
According to the data released by the government, the capital goods segment in the overall industrial output rose by 63 per cent in July and pushed up the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) by 13.8 per cent.
Among other stocks, IT firm Mphasis today reported a 15.30% increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 184.72 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
The 50-share NSE Nifty ended flat, up by 9.85 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 10,399.55.
The broader NSE Nifty, in a volatile session, recaptured the key 11,300-mark. It ended at 11,369.90, up 82.40 points or 0.73 per cent.
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