Among the gainers at this time were Bharti Airtel, up 2.37 percent; Wipro, up 1.93 percent; Tata Power, up 1.47 and State Bank of India, up 1.06 percent.

Among losers were Tata Steel, down 1.45 percent; Tata Motors, down 1.43 percent; Hindustan Unilever, down 1.39 and ICICI Bank, down 1.16 percent.

Other Asian markets were trading in the green, with the Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, ending 165.74 points lower at 10,473.97 points.

At the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the main index was ruling 0.73 percent lower at 2275.7 points, while the primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, was ruling in the red at 20,237.81 points, down 218.51 points or 1.07 percent.