New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Five of India's six large defence stocks are lower on Tuesday morning. Bharat Dynamics is the exception, and it is the second exception in two sessions.

49 IST, up Rs.10.50 or 0.77 percent on Monday's close of Rs.1,368.00, and at Rs.1,379.00 on the BSE. It opened at Rs.1,363.00, below Monday's close, and has since run to Rs.1,393.70. Turnover of 12.76 lakh shares is 71 percent of an average full day, which extrapolates to about 1.7 times a normal session and is the heaviest relative turnover in this series after Steel Authority of India. These are live intraday figures from a session that settles at 15:30.

That combination is what makes the morning worth a paragraph rather than a line. On Monday, Bharat Dynamics ro...