Indian equity indices fell on the fifth consecutive session on September 25 with Nifty finishing below 24,900 amid selling seen across the sectors barring metals.
After a muted start, the market traded rangebound for most part of the session, however, the final hour selling dragged the Nifty below 24,900, before settling near the day's low.
At close, the Sensex was down 555.95 points or 0.68 percent at 81,159.68, and the Nifty was down 166.05 points or 0.66 percent at 24,890.85. BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices down 0.7% each.
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Tata Motors, Trent, Shriram Finance, TCS, Power Grid were among major losers on the Nifty, while gainers were Bharat Electronics, Hindalco, Axis Bank, ONGC, Hero MotoCorp.