Indian equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty50 are likely to start Monday's session on a lower note. At 8:31 am, Nifty futures trading on Singapore Exchange -- an early indicator of NSE's Nifty50 benchmark index in India -- were down 37.5 points or 0.2 percent at 16,960.5.

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