Domestic bourses continued to extend losses during the noon trading session weighed down by selling in index heavyweights including Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Infosys Ltd.HCL Technologies Ltd.Tata Motors Ltd. among others.

At 14:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 82041.84 down by -584.39 points or by -0.71 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25224.7 down by -102.35 points or by -0.4 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 82583.16 and intraday low of 82010.45 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25331.7 and intraday low of 25211.6

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 341.00,+1.32%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (Rs. 1444.15,+1.15%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 12647.65,+1.03%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 1000.00,+0.70%), Axis Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1142.00,+0.53%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1498.90,-3.55%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Rs. 3066.20,-3.27%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1491.50,-3.17%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1437.50,-2.04%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 696.40,-1.65%), among others.

Power index was at 6967.63 up by 96.19 points or by 1.4%. Adani Power Ltd. (Rs. 170.15,+19.99%), Adani Green Energy Ltd. (Rs. 1144.10,+10.96%), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (Rs. 238.85,+0.55%),.

_IT index was at 34856.26 down by -1112.17 points or by -3.09%. InfoBeans Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 515.00,-8.96%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 812.00,-5.28%), MphasiS Ltd. (Rs. 2841.00,-5.04%), Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1708.50,-4.83%), LTIMindtree Ltd. (Rs. 5248.35,-4.75%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4598 , shares advanced were 1791 while 2614 shares declined and 193 were unchanged.