Indian benchmark indices continued to trade lower during the noon trading session weighed down by selling in index heavyweights including Nestle India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries among others.

At 12:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 82208.82 down by -517.82 points or by -0.63 % and then NSE Nifty was at 25078.05 down by -141.85 points or by -0.56 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 82784.24 and intraday low of 82047.22 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25246.25 and intraday low of 25018.

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were Eternal Ltd. (Rs. 311.55,+3.16%), Tata Motors Ltd. (Rs. 702.00,+1.71%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 164.30,+0.92%), Titan Company Ltd. (Rs. 3484.95,+0.38%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1688.05,+0.32%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were Nestle India Ltd. (Rs. 2336.00,-4.76%), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (Rs. 1503.90,-2.79%), Reliance Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1402.35,-1.55%), Bajaj Finance Ltd. (Rs. 957.30,-1.13%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1556.70,-1.12%), among others.

_HCS index was at 45319.87 up by 307.18 points or by 0.68%. Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1333.15,+10.69%), Vijaya Diagnostic Centre Ltd. (Rs. 1088.60,+6.96%), Windlas Biotech Ltd. (Rs. 992.00,+6.89%), Rainbow Childrens Medicare Ltd. (Rs. 1625.95,+5.83%), Indoco Remedies Ltd. (Rs. 323.00,+4.18%),.

IT index was at 35815.27 down by -543.06 points or by -1.49%. Coforge Ltd. (Rs. 1707.55,-7.66%), Cigniti Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1611.10,-7.37%), Persistent Systems Ltd. (Rs. 5273.00,-5.93%), Latent View Analytics Ltd. (Rs. 432.30,-3.54%), Mastek Ltd. (Rs. 2480.50,-2.84%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4214 , shares advanced were 1628 while 2387 shares declined and 199 were unchanged.