BSE Sensex closed at 71,947.55 , down 1,635 points (-2.22%) on Monday. Nifty tanked 488 points to 22,331. That’s not a dip. That’s a 10.33% bloodbath in March alone – the worst monthly drop since March 2020. In the last ~15 trading days, we’ve shed roughly 6,000–7,000 points from the mid-March highs near 77k–78k. Heavyweights got absolutely hammered, and the damage is concentrated in a few sectors. Here’s the live data + exact stocks dragging the index right now, broken down like a trader who’s been glued to the screen. The 10 Reasons (But Reality Is Usually 3–4 Hitting at Once) Global Market Weakness US markets (S&P 500 & Nasdaq) have been flashing risk-off for weeks. Geopolitical noise + higher yields = foreign money fleeing equities everywhere, including India. Indian indices simply followed the global cue. FII Selling – The Real Killer Foreign Institutional Investors went nuclear. March 2026 alone: ₹1.14 lakh crore outflow – a record. On March 30 itself, F...