INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: ICICI Bank (Rs 791.96 crore) finished Tuesday's session as the most active stock in value terms on NSE.
The stock closed the day
at Rs 292.30, down 0.24 per cent on NSE
The bank's CEO Chanda Kochhar will go on leave to facilitate an independent investigation into charges of favouritism and impropriety while
the group's life insurance head Sandeep Bakhshi will run the bank as its Chief Operating Officer.
Reliance Industries (Rs 636.31 crore),
Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 593.74 crore), State Bank of India (Rs 565.93 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 556.89 crore), Tata Steel (Rs 526.55
Reddys Labs (Rs 506.32 crore), Vedanta (Rs 498.80 crore), HDFC (Rs 480.02 crore) and Infosys (Rs 469.48 crore) also featured among the most
active stocks in value terms on NSE, in that order.
The Sensex index lost 262 points, or 0.74 per cent, ending the day at 35,287, with only
4 stocks in the green and 27 in the red.
The Nifty index tanked 89 points, or 0.83 per cent, settling at 10,710, with 8 stocks advancing and
42 declining.
All sectors closed the day in the red on NSE
Nifty Realty, falling 2.01 per cent, emerged as the top loser among the sectoral indices.
Bajaj Finance, GAIL (India) and ITC stood as the
top gainers in the Nifty index on Tuesday.
