Police teams and bomb disposal experts launched searches at three major Mumbai locations after threatening emails were reported. Authorities tightened security while investigators worked to trace the source.
At the close, the Sensex ended 27 points, or 0.03%, lower at 82,248.61, while the Nifty 50 was up by 14 points, or 0.06%, to settle at 25,496.55.
At close, the Sensex was up 316.57 points or 0.38% at 82,814.71, and the Nifty was up 116.90 points or 0.46% at 25,571.25.
Multiple bomb threats have surfaced and unsettled institutions across India this week, with the Bombay Stock Exchange, St Stephen’s College, part of Delhi University, and St Thomas School in Dwarka receiving threats on Tuesday.
The market capitalisation (Mcap) of IT majors Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys lost the most amid broad-based selloffs due to fear of recession in the global markets.
BSE Sensex ended witnessed a fall of 334.54 points or 0.85 percent at 38,963.84.
The financial markets will resume on Tuesday.
At 11.23 a.m., the Sensex was trading 153 points lower at 36,915.28 while the Nifty was down 47.80 points at 10,900.50.
The domestic indices traded in line with global indices, as Asian markets also were largely trading in the red.
Sensex and Nifty that were up 38,169.87 (+322.22) points and 11,361.40 (+90.19) points gave away their intra-day gains to slip into red terrain in mid-session but again regained upside momentum in line with key Asian markets.
