BSE Sensex and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, opened in green on Monday. While BSE Sensex was up over 100 points, Nifty50 was above 24,000.

The S&P BSE Sensex was up 254.19 points to 79,477.30, while NSE Nifty50 gained 61.50 points to 24,066.25 as of 9:23 AM.

At the close of trading, the Sensex was down by 720.60 points, or 0.90 per cent, at 79,223.11, and the Nifty dropped 183.90 points, or 0.76 per cent, to end at 24,004.75