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Indian shares are likely to start Monday's session on a strong note, tracking gains in other Asian markets. At 8:42 am, Nifty50 futures on the Singapore Exchange — an early indicator of India's NSE Nifty50 index — were up 176.5 points or 1.08 percent at 16,582, indicating a gap-up start.

Asian share markets were trying to pick up the pieces on Monday following last week's thrashing as Covid-19 concerns showed little sign of abating while safe-haven flows lifted the dollar ahead of a key update on US monetary policy. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan, which sank 4.8 percent  last week to a nine-month trough, rose 0.2 percent in early trade on Monday.

A raft of manufacturing surveys for August due to be released later in the day will offer an early indication of how global growth is faring in the face of the Delta variant, with analysts expecting some slippage and especially in Asia.