Natco Pharma(up 1.66 per cent), Alembic Pharmaceuticals(up 1.6 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals(up 1.26 per cent), Strides Pharma Science(up 0.93 per cent) and Gland Pharma(up 0.9 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Pfizer(down 2.5 per cent), Ipca Laboratories(down 1.11 per cent), Granules India(down 1.0 per cent), Divis Laboratories(down 0.7 per cent) and Alkem Laboratories(down 0.37 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.17 per cent at 13672.35 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 222.65 points at 17276.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 752.06 points at 58012.64.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 49 were trading in the green, while 1 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Power, Coal India Ltd, YES Bank and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Go Fashion(India)Ltd., R Systems Intnl, Mukta Arts, Macrotech Developers Ltd. and Universus Photo hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nidan Laboratories And Healthcare Ltd., Crown Lifters, Urja Global(PP), Focus Lighting and Quadpro ITeS Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
