93 percent; Bharti Airtel, down 0.80 percent; and Hindustan Unilever, down 0.31 percent.

According to data with the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), foreign institutional investors Tuesday bought shares worth $53.8 million.

Other important Asian markets were trading mixed.

The Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed 15.56 points higher at 10,217.62 points.

At the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the benchmark SSE Composite was ruling 0.03 percent higher at 2385.33 points.

However, the primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, was in the red at 20866.37 points, down 65.83 points or 0.31 percent.

Major European markets were ruling in the negative terrain.

In Britain, the FTSE 100 index was ruling 0.38 percent higher at 5,037.93 points, while its French peer, the CAC 40, was up 0.23 percent at 3,739.17 points.

Germany's DAX, however, was ruling in the negative at 5,614.5 points, down 0.10 percent.