The prime index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) failed to carry on the upward momentum it had set on Monday, by ending down 1.08 percent or 19.46 points on Tuesday, tracking weak global cues.
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No 2 software services exporter, said quarterly profit rose by nearly a fifth but its shares tumbled 7 percent on market concerns over the rapidly rising rupee and the risk of a U.S. downturn.
Indian outsourcing companies are shifting some of their operations to China, the Philippines, Vietnam and Kenya in a bid to stay competitive as higher wages, expensive property prices and a rising rupee eat into profits.
Infosys Technologies Ltd. reported a 34.5 percent jump in quarterly profit on Wednesday, but shares fell after the Indian software developer lowered its full year profit outlook.
Shares in Capgemini rose on Thursday on market talk that India's Infosys would make a bid for Europe's largest IT services group at 70 euros a share, traders said.
Operations of global software companies, financial institutions and government offices in India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.