New Delhi, June 23 -- Indian stock market witnessed significant losses in early trade on Monday, June 23, with the Sensex crashing over 900 points, and the Nifty 50 falling below 24,850 on a broad selloff amid weak global cues.

The Sensex opened at 81,704.07 against its previous close of 82,408.17 and touched an intraday low of 81,488.54, falling over 900 points, or more than 1 per cent.

The Nifty 50 opened at 24,939.75 against its previous close of 25,112.40 and dropped over 1 per cent to an intraday low of 24,834.55.

The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices also fell by almost a per cent each.

The overall market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms dropped to nearly Rs.445 lakh crore from about Rs.448 lakh crore in the previous session, ma...