Sensex lower, hurt by Ranbaxy, RBI chief comment

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Last Updated : Jan 24 2014 | 11:46 AM IST

Reuters Market Eye - The BSE Sensex is down 1 percent, after posting a second consecutive record closing high on Thursday, and the Nifty also falls 1 percent.

Ranbaxy Laboratories , majority owned by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co , slumped over 17 percent after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned more products from the Indian drugmaker.

Rate-sensitive stocks fall after Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was quoted as saying that inflation was a "destructive disease" that was forcing the bank to keep interest rates high, according to a Press Trust of India report carried by The Economic Times newspaper's website.

HDFC Bank falls 1.7 percent, while Tata Motors is down 2.9 percent.

(Reporting by Abhishek Vishnoi)

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First Published: Jan 24 2014 | 11:34 AM IST

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