Among the components of the BSE Telecommunication index, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd (up 8.91%), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (up 1.54%),Tata Communications Ltd (up 0.75%),Railtel Corporation of India Ltd (up 0.48%),Bharti Hexacom Ltd (up 0.36%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were HFCL Ltd (up 0.12%), Indus Towers Ltd (up 0.08%), and Bharti Airtel Ltd (up 0.01%).
On the other hand, Suyog Telematics Ltd (down 3.98%), Vindhya Telelinks Ltd (down 1.58%), and Optiemus Infracom Ltd (down 1.21%) turned lower.
At 09:42 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 3.63 or 0.01% at 51203.82.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was down 31.33 points or 0.2% at 15527.16.
The Nifty 50 index was down 238.2 points or 0.96% at 24575.25.
The BSE Sensex index was down 751.52 points or 0.92% at 80845.11.
On BSE,1326 shares were trading in green, 1521 were trading in red and 165 were unchanged.