Bloodbath on D-Street! IT stocks drag Sensex over 650 points lower, Nifty below 19,800

After closing at record highs for the last six trading sessions, Indian equity indices opened in the red on Friday, dragged by information technology (IT) stocks.

The BSE Sensex was trading 690 points or 1.02% lower at 66,882. Nifty50 was trading at 19,797, down 182 points or 0.91% at around 9.18 am.