On Thursday, benchmark indices ended in red with Nifty settling below 17,200 in the highly volatile session after Federal Reserve in its policy outcome indicated interest rates hike soon.

Activity in the F&O market for the weekly expiry on February 3 shows 15100 to act as support now. 

Benchmark indices Nifty 50 and Sensex fell by ~1 per cent, ending the session at 17,110.20 and 57,276.94.

Leading drug maker Cipla has announced its Q3 results a few days back. Ahead of the results, shares of the company got an upward momentum and gained 3.5 per cent in three trading days. Post-result, that is today it gained a decent 2.2 per cent that too when the overall market sentiment is bearish. 

A major supporter of the market was Nifty PSU Bank, which surged about 5.07 per cent while media and auto indices ended higher. Meanwhile, Nifty IT slipped about 3.55 per cent.   

TV18 Broadcast Ltd, one of the leading broadcasting companies in India, witnessed a super bull rally today as strategic investors have become more likely to buy a significant stake in Viacom18.

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The Indian indices experienced a scene of carnage in bearish market tone and F&O expiry ahead of Union Budget on February 1. The benchmark indices at BSE and NSE tanked by over 1.63 per cent and 1.91 per cent. The BSE Sensex index had a major fall of 949 and is trading at a level of 56,916.00. The BSE Information Technology and Healthcare sector were the most affected ones and dragged down the index. Today the FII net selloff was recorded at Rs -7094 crore and DII Inflow Rs 4534 crore was recorded.

These tablets are the generic version of Ziac Tablets, which are manufactured by Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc. 

At 12.30 pm on Thursday, the core equity indices i.e., Sensex and Nifty 50 were seen extending losses and were trading at a discount of more than 2 per cent. The Sensex was at 56,554.22 down by 1303.93 points or 2.25 per cent, while Nifty was at 16,934.90 down by 343.05 points or 1.99 per cent from the last trading session.