Mumbai, June 5: Broadly negative Asian markets, along with caution ahead of Reserve Bank's monetary policy review subdued the key Indian equity indices during the morning trade session on Tuesday.

According to market observers, heavy selling pressure was witnessed in the capital goods, consumer durables and automobile stocks.

Around 9.30 a.m., the broader Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) traded at 10,609.25 points -- down by 19.25 points or 0.18 per cent -- from its previous close.

The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), which opened at 35,029.45 points, traded at 34,963.99 points -- lower by 47.90 points or 0.14 per cent -- from its previous session's close of 35,011.89 points.

Sensex has so far touched a high of 35,073.12 points and a low of 34,930.56 points during the intra-day trade.

On Monday -- the previous trade session -- both the indices closed in the negative territory as caution prevailed over RBI's second monetary policy review.

Consequently, the NSE Nifty50 closed at 10,628.50 points -- lower by 67.70 points or 0.63 per -- from the previous close.

Similarly, the barometer S&P BSE Sensex settled in the red. It had at 35,503.24 points, closed at 35,011.89 points, 215.37 points or 0.61 per cent lower from the previous session's close at 35,227.26 points.

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ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.

“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.

The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.

Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.