Indian equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 are likely to make a gap-down start on Wednesday tracking weakness across global markets, as investors' focus returned to the possibility of aggressive monetary policy tightening to fight inflation. At 

am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) Nifty futures -an early indicator of the Nifty50 index -- were down 140 points or 0.8 percent to 17,881, having dropped as much as 161 points earlier in the day.

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