New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- The benchmark equity indices - BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty - faced a massive selloff in trade on Friday, September 26, taking their fall to the sixth consecutive session as fresh Trump tariffs on pharma and relentless selling by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) hurt investor sentiment.

Sensex crashed 800 points, or 0.98% to hit a low of 80,360 in the afternoon trade. The index finally settled the day at 80,426, down 733 points, or 0.90%.

Meanwhile, its NSE counterpart Nifty 50 tanked 252 points, or 1.01% to a low of 24,638.40. It finally ended the session down 236 points, or 0.95% at 24,655.

Amid the bloodbath on Dalal Street, the market capitalisation of listed companies on BSE declined to 450.61 lakh crore, resu...