Key indices ended almost flat on Tuesday after a volatile trading session since caution prevailed ahead of corporate results expected to release this month, while oil retailers such as HPCL fell after crude prices strengthened. BSE Sensex closed little changed at 33,812.26, down 0.49 point, while the NSE Nifty 50 ended at 10,442.20, up 6.65 points, or 0.06 percent. 

Engineering & construction major Larsen and Toubra (L&T) fell 0.88 percent after the company announced today, that its construction arm, L&T Construction, bagged orders worth Rs 1,454 crore. 

State-run Coal India Ltd rose 1.35 percent as it announced that on provisional basis, the company and its subsidiary arm achieved production of 93% of targeted production at 54.63 million tonnes in Dec 2017.