Sensex Today: Equities came under heavy selling pressure in the final hour on Thursday, pulling benchmark indices down by as much as 0.68 per cent.

The BSE Sensex closed at 81,160, down 556 points, while the Nifty50 settled at 24,891, slipping 166 points.

Top Sensex laggards included Power Grid, Tata Motors, Trent, TCS, Asian Paints, NTPC, Adani Ports, Bajaj Finserv, HCL Tech, Titan, M&M, Bajaj Finance, L&T, Eternal, Reliance Industries, and Kotak Bank, with losses of up to 3 per cent. On the Nifty50, Shriram Finance, Adani Enterprises, Dr Reddy’s Labs, Cipla, Jio Financial Services, and Grasim Industries also weighed on sentiment.

In the broader markets, the Nifty MidCap index fell 0.64 per cent and the Nifty SmallCap slipped 0.57 per cent.

Sectorally, Realty remained the biggest dra

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