Overnight, the Wall Street closed on a flatter note.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget for 2016-17.
Increase in taxes on luxury cars will not have any effect on the demand
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Markets ended lower on profit taking ahead of June F&O expiry.
Indian roads are far more unsafe than its railways. A sense of urgency is required to tackle India's embarrassing record on road safety.
Bank shares were the top gainer in early trades with Bank of Baroda up over 4%.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 35 points at 26,349 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 20 points at 7,864.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
Money is being released and the government knows it will have to front-run private investment.
The public-private partnership model is a compulsion, says the minister.
