The share price of Nestle India rallied 4.6 per cent in the day's trading session after the High Court allowed it to export is India-banned product Maggi.

The share price of L&T closed 0.44 per cent higher at Rs 1,787.80 on Monday on news that the company's subsidiary, L&T Construction, has won orders worth Rs 2,035 crore across various business segments in June 2015.

Banking stocks remained under pressure on Friday after the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) stress tests surprisingly showed private banks are likely to see a significant rise in bad loans.

The 18 executives have been asked to resign and have been given a severance amount.

Most of them started with very little capital and resources. And all of them persevered through the bad times of the industry.

Shares of Cairn India bounced back by 7 per cent, a day after it saw selling pressure in the wake of Vedanta merger reports.

The overall market breadth remained weak on the BSE as 1,050 stocks ended with gains while 1,576 closed in loss. However, advances to decline ratio for Nifty remained weak at 20:30.

Total investor wealth of BSE-listed companies plummeted by Rs 2,26,179.25 crore to Rs 1,01,00,507 crore.

The share price of Sun Pharma tanked 9 per cent to Rs 878.95 after the announcement of lower-than-expected fourth quarter result.

Overall market breadth remained weak on the BSE as 1,195 stocks ended with gains while 1,519 closed with losses.

Key stocks that made news today were YES Bank, Jet Airways, HDFC Bank and Biocon.

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This was the fourth consecutive session of fall in Sensex, which has now lost around 1,160 points since crossing 29,000-levels last Monday. Concerns by foreign investors over retrospective taxation weighed on sentiments, traders said.

Check out the six key stocks that made news today.

Metal, oil and gas, healthcare, capital goods and technology stocks witnessed selling pressure.

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The benchmark index, Sensex registered a marginal gain of 0.48%. However, the difference between the day's high and low was 678.3 points.

Besides, expectations of faster reforms and a growth oriented Budget as well as recent data strengthening the case for more monetary easing boosted the sentiment, brokers said.

In percentage terms also, the rally this year is the biggest since 2009 (81 per cent).

Sun Pharmaceutical's move to acquire Ranbaxy is arguably the high point of 2014 for the pharmaceutical sector.