{"id":8281,"date":"2021-03-24T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/24\/sensex-drops-285-points-nifty-down-70-points\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:02:24","slug":"sensex-drops-285-points-nifty-down-70-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/24\/sensex-drops-285-points-nifty-down-70-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex Drops 285 Points; Nifty Down 70 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened lower on Wednesday, tracking weak cues from global <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> as renewed lockdowns in Europe clouded the outlook for a swifter economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex dropped 285 points, or 0.6 percent, to 49,767 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 70 points, or half a percent, at 14,744.<\/p>\n<p>SBI, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, ONGC and Hindalco fell 1-2 percent in the Nifty pack, while Asian Paints and Adani Ports rose over 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Maruti Suzuki India shed 0.8 percent and Hero MotoCorp was little changed on the price hike buzz. <\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea lost 1 percent after increasing the prices of its Family postpaid plans. <\/p>\n<p>Cipla gained half a percent after its board approved the re-appointment of Umang Vohra as the Managing Director and Global CEO of the company for a further period of five years. <\/p>\n<p>Inter Globe Aviation fell about 1 percent and SpceJet declined 1.3 percent after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) extended the suspension of international commercial passenger flight services till April 30, 2021. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Sensex Drops 285 Points; Nifty Down 70 Points<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-24 04:02:24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened lower on Wednesday, tracking weak cues from global markets as renewed lockdowns in Europe clouded the outlook for a swifter economic recovery. The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}