Stock market update: Mining stocks down as market falls

NEW DELHI: Mining shares closed lower in the Thursday's session. Oriental Trimex Ltd.(up 3.

06%), Aro Granite Industries Ltd.(up 1.02%) and Ashapura Minechem Ltd.



(up 0.46%) stood among the top gainers. Pokarna Ltd.

(down 2.87%), KIOCL Ltd.(down 2.

70%), Sandur Manganese & Iron Ores Ltd.(down 1.89%), The Orissa Minerals Development Company Ltd.

(down 1.71%), NMDC Ltd.(down 1.

53%), MOIL Ltd.(down 1.35%), 20 Microns Ltd.

(down 0.96%), Coal India Ltd.(down 0.

64%), Lexus Granito(India)Ltd.(down 0.63%) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd.

(down 0.56%) were among the top losers of the day. The NSE Nifty50 index ended 73.

3 points down at 22397.2, while the 30-share BSE Sensex closed down 200.85 points at 73828.

91. Bharat Electronics Ltd.(up 1.

18%), State Bank of India(up 0.67%), NTPC Ltd.(up 0.

54%), Cipla Ltd.(up 0.53%), ICICI Bank Ltd.

(up 0.5%), Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(up 0.

46%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(up 0.4%), Tata Steel Ltd.

(up 0.39%), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.

(up 0.26%) and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(up 0.

21%) stood among the top gainers in the Nifty pack. On the other hand, Shriram Finance Ltd.(down 2.

74%), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.25%), Tata Motors Ltd.

(down 1.92%), Hindalco Industries Ltd.(down 1.

82%), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(down 1.81%), Wipro Ltd.

(down 1.7%), SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 1.

67%), HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.(down 1.52%), Britannia Industries Ltd.

(down 1.34%) and Grasim Industries Ltd.(down 1.

2%) closed in the red..