Nov 1 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee was down nearly a percent in afternoon trade on Tuesday, pummelled by soft domestic equities and euro, as fears Europe's debt woes would worsen dented risk appetite globally. * At 1:41 p.m., the partially convertible rupee was at 49.17/18 per dollar, 0.98 percent weaker from Monday's close of 48.69/70. It had so far moved in a range of 48.8300 to 49.1851. * The euro was at $1.3747, sharply down compared with $1.4001 at the end of local trade on Monday, while the index of the dollar against six major currencies was at 76.968 points versus 75.982 points. * Global risk aversion weighed on local benchmark share index as well. It was down more than 1.3 percent. * Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has threatened the euro zone with a new crisis with his shock announcement that he will hold a referendum on the last-minute bailout deal struck only last week to try to contain the bloc's debt mountain. (Reporting by Aditya Phatak; Editing by Harish Nambiar)

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