Biocon (up 1.58 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 1.05 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 0.66 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.5 per cent) and Dr Reddys Laboratories (up 0.27 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Alkem Laboratories (down 1.0 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.21 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 0.18 per cent), Cipla (down 0.06 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.04 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.34 per cent at 14507.65 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 36.3 points at 17270.45, while the BSE Sensex was up 113.54 points at 57966.08.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Exide Inds., Trident Ltd, YES Bank and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of STEL Holdings, Accuracy Shipping, Zen Tech, Banka Bioloo and Prestige Estate hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nandani Creation, Yuken India and Inventure Grwth hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
