Mumbai, Jan 15 (TIWN) The BSE Sensex on Wednesday afternoon shed all the gains made during the initial trade to trade over 250 points down.

Decline in the heavyweights HDFC and Reliance Industries (RIL) weighed on the index. Both the Sensex and the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) touched all-time high levels of 49,795.19 and 14,653.35 points.