Global sell-off melts Sensex, ends down 453pts

 ICICI Bank led the decline with a drop of over 5% to Rs 830.

Bharti Airtel slumped nearly 5% to Rs 729. Reliance Communications dropped over 4% to Rs 398.

Wipro dropped 4.6% to Rs 555. Satyam, Infosys and TCS were all down over 4% each at Rs 433, Rs 2,019 and Rs 1,213, respectively.

ITC slipped over 4% to Rs 143. BHEL was down 4% at Rs 2,030.

While Bajaj was up Rs 10 at Rs 2,529, Gujarat Ambuja was up marginally at Rs 106.

MOST ACTIVE COUNTERS

 MindTree was the most active counter with a turnover of Rs 824 crore followed by Parsvnath (Rs 129 crore), Tech Mahindra (Rs 126 crore), Reliance (Rs 112 crore) and Reliance Communications (Rs 98 crore).