Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) provisionally fell 3.87 per cent on Monday as a spreading global financial crisis kept investors nervous, with top private sector lender ICICI Bank leading the losses.
While Indian bankers do not see much impact from the exposure to Lehman brothers, market analysts do not rule out immediate repercussions of the fallout on the Indian stocks.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded the creation of a national registry of citizens in the northeastern states to check the flow of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.