Indian equity benchmarks are likely to make a gap-down opening on Wednesday as the market returns to trade after a day's holiday. Investors globally tracked newsflow on the Russia-Ukraine conflict as geopolitical tensions hurt market sentiment. At 

am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) futures -an early indicator of the Nifty50 index -- were down 210.5 points or 1.3 percent at 16,497.5.

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