India, Jan. 21 -- India's stock market was lower at the opening bell today, after a bruising selloff in the previous session, tracking global peers convulsed by US President Donald Trump's tantrums on Greenland.

The 30-share S&P BSE Sensex fell as much as 1.28%, or 1,056.02 points, from previous close to an intraday low of 81,124.45, while the wider Nifty 50 eased 1.23% to an intraday low of 24,919.80. All the major sectoral indices were in the red. The broader small-caps and mid-caps lost up to 1.14% each. The Nifty IT index was the top sectoral loser-down 1%.

On Tuesday, the equity benchmarks lost about 1.4% and 1.3%, respectively-their steepest single-day percentage drop in more than eight months, and logged their lowest closing leve...