Sensex and Nifty snapped a three-day rally on Thursday. The Sensex fell 504 points to 83,314 while Nifty dropped by 133 points to 25,643. Heavy selling in metal, IT, and capital goods stocks, along with global market weakness and US-Iran tensions, dampened investor sentiment ahead of the RBI’s policy announcement

The tumultuous first leg of the Budget session, which saw heated exchanges over the India-US interim trade deal and unpublished memoir of former army chief M M Naravane, concluded Friday