Shares of Zee Entertainment (down 5.53 per cent), Canara Bank (down 5.13 per cent), Adani Green (down 4.99 per cent), GMR Infrastructure (down 4.78 per cent) and Jindal Steel & Power (down 4.71 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

While Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail (up 3.12 per cent), Honeywell Automation India (up 2.23 per cent), Oberoi Realty (up 2.15 per cent), Crisil (up 1.52 per cent) and Adani Transmissions (up 1.18 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE MidCap index was trading 1.77 per cent down at 14274.9 around 02:12PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 98.95 points at 11151.6, while the BSE Sensex was down 298.86 points at 37735.28.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, IDFC First Bank Ltd., BHEL and Ashok Leyland were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of TCS and Hexaware hit their fresh 52 week high in today’s trade, while Mauria Udyog Ltd., 7NR Retail Ltd., Darjeeling Ropeway Company Ltd., Panth Infinity Ltd., Innovative Ideals and Services (India) Ltd., Mehai Technology Ltd., Saffron Industries Ltd., Unishire Urban Infra Ltd., Vas Infrastructure Ltd. and SC Agrotech Ltd. hit fresh 52 week low in trade.