ZUARIAGRO(up 2.28%), Madras Fertlizers(up 1.35%) and

& Fertilizers(up 0.43%) stood among the top gainers. & Petrochemicals(down 2.99%), KRISHANA(down 2.71%), Coromandel International(down 2.12%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 1.83%), & Fertilizers(down 1.79%), National Fertilizer(down 1.70%), Sikko Industries(down 1.60%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(down 1.60%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(down 1.56%) and Aries Agro(down 1.49%) were among the top losers of the day.

The NSE Nifty50 index ended 73.65 points down at 17241.0, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 200.18 points at 57991.11.

Axis Bank(up 2.8%), Tata Consultancy(up 1.75%), HDFC Life Insurance(up 1.21%), Maruti Suzuki(up 0.95%), Eicher Motors(up 0.94%), Infosys(up 0.79%), Wipro( up 0.78%), HCL Technologies(up 0.58%), Tech Mahindra(up 0.54%) and Bajaj Auto(up 0.37%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, Tata Motors(down 3.93%), TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS(down 3.04%), Hero MotoCorp(down 2.07%), Asian Paints(down 1.97%), ITC(down 1.87%), Titan Company Ltd(down 1.85%), Grasim Industries(down 1.41%), Divis Laboratories(down 1.32%),

Enterprises(down 1.22%) and HDFC(down 1.22%) closed in the red.