Cipla (up 0.52 per cent), Alkem Laboratories (up 0.47 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.31 per cent) and Dr Reddys Laboratories (up 0.08 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Biocon (down 1.36 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 0.88 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.63 per cent), Divis Laboratories (down 0.61 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.14 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.08 per cent at 14368.3 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 101.65 points at 17924.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 389.1 points at 60274.46.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Zee Ent., BHEL, YES Bank and ONGC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of KPR Mill, Gujarat Alkalie, Sansera Engineering Ltd., Saksoft Ltd and Oberoi Realty hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while CarTrade Tech Ltd., Suvidhaa Infoserve Ltd. and Shrem InvIT hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
