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Mumbai, Nov 21 : A benchmark index of Indian equities markets closed more than 400 points or 1.97 percent lower Thursday.

Selling pressure was seen in banking, capital goods, metal, oil and gas and healthcare sectors. All sectoral indices closed in red.

The 30-scrip S&P Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 20,579.26 points, closed at 20,229.05 points, down 406.08 points or 1.97 percent from its previous day close at 20,635.13 points.

The Sensex touched a high of 20,579.26 points and a low of 20,189.23 points intra-day.

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Agra, Nov 21 : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday accused the Congress of playing divisive politics and said the party was responsible for India's partition.

"Congress has always played divisive politics. At the time of independence, it divided the country," Modi said at a rally here.

"They (Congress) are not interested in development. They are habituated to playing vote bank politics. Appease 25 percent of the population and ignore the rest 75 percent," he said.

Mumbai, Nov 21 : Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell Test has emerged as the highest rated match on TV in India in the past eight years.

The match garnered 1739 average TVTs, which remain unmatched since 2005. The two Test series against the West Indies, broadcast by Star Sports, had the maximum channel share across all genres during the six playing days of the series. In addition, www. starsports. com attracted 3.5 million visitors during the two matches.

New Delhi, Nov 21 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday favoured granting greater functional autonomy to state-owned companies and not shield them from competition from the private sector.

"Competitive neutrality requires that the government not use its legislative and fiscal powers to give undue advantage to its own businesses over the private sector. Going forward, our governments will have to increasingly adopt competition-neutral policies," Singh said, addressing the 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference organised here by the Competition Commission of India.

Mumbai, Nov 21 : Jimmy Shergill, who has been part of many Tigmanshu Dhulia films, is thankful to the director for thinking of him everytime he had something different.

Be it "Haasil" or "Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster" series or the forthcoming film "Bullett Raja", Dhulia presented Jimmy in various avatars in his movies.

"I am very thankful to Tigmanshu for always thinking of me whenever there's something wherein I can do something. I am really, really thankful to him for supporting me everytime," the 42-year-old said here Wednesday at a "Bullett Raja" event.