Thursday, October 6 2005 11:03 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai : Tracking global trend, the domestic stock markets also witnessed a crash with the Bombay Stock Exchange's sensitive index falling by 163.20 points at 8561.27 today (Oct 06, 2005) in early trading.

The BSE index, which had been volatile recently had gained nearly 1,000 points in the last one month, fell today on fresh selling by major market players.

Major stocks, which dragged down the Sensex, were ONGC, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Auto, HDFC Bank, HDFC Ltd, State Bank of India and Larsen and Toubro.

A few stocks mid-section were also down on fresh spell of selling.