Indian benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty50, continued to trade lower during the noon trading session weighed down by IT stocks.

At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 82456.87 down by -169.36 points or by -0.2 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25287.3 down by -39.75 points or by -0.16 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 82583.16 and intraday low of 82151.07 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25331.7 and intraday low of 25211.6

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1453.35,+1.79%), Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 342.45,+1.75%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 12650.00,+1.04%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1003.00,+1.01%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (Rs. 2583.50,+0.96%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1500.70,-3.43%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3084.00,-2.71%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1500.50,-2.58%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1447.50,-1.36%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1644.00,-0.73%), among others.

Power index was at 7003.13 up by 131.69 points or by 1.92%. Adani Power Ltd. (Rs. 170.15,+19.99%), Adani Green Energy Ltd. (Rs. 1125.50,+9.16%), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 241.45,+1.64%), Torrent Power Ltd. (Rs. 1278.45,+0.97%), Suzlon Energy Ltd. (Rs. 60.63,+0.45%),.

IT index was at 35104.76 down by -863.67 points or by -2.4%. InfoBeans Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 540.50,-4.45%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 822.00,-4.12%), MphasiS Ltd. (Rs. 2872.65,-3.98%), Cigniti Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1627.80,-3.94%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1732.35,-3.50%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4452 , shares advanced were 2064 while 2172 shares declined and 216 were unchanged.