The equity indices traded in a narrow range with modest gains in mid-afternoon trade. At 14:25 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 179.5 points or 0.35% at 50,793.04. The Nifty 50 index gained 0.3% to 14,940.
The Sensex scaled record high of 51,073.27 while the Nifty hit record high of 15,014.65 level in early trade.
The broader market witnessed profit selling. The S&P BSE Mid-Cap index fell 0.78% while the S&P BSE Small-Cap index was down 0.17%.
The market breadth was negative. On the BSE, 1294 shares rose and 1588 shares fell. A total of 159 shares were unchanged.
COVID-19 Update:
Total COVID-19 confirmed cases worldwide stood at 104,838,939 with 2,281,731 deaths. India reported 151,460 active cases of COVID-19 infection and 154,823 deaths while 104,96,308 patients have been discharged, according to the data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Dehradun: Dehradun police have announced a reward of Rs 1,000 on the absconding wife of the owner of the club, World Integrity Center(WIC) on Rajpur Road. The couple, Sachin Upadhyay and his wife Nazia Yusuf Izuddin, have been booked in a case of alleged fraud.
While Upadhyay has been arrested, Nazia Yusuf Izuddin has been absconding since a year, SHO of Rajpur, Rajesh Sah said.
In 2017, a case of fraud was registered against the couple at Rajpur police station and the couple was accused of presenting forged documents to take loan from a bank. Later, on the intervention of court, a fresh case was registered in January 2020.