Divis Laboratories (up 0.39 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 0.34 per cent) and Alkem Laboratories (up 0.1 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Cadila Healthcare (down 0.64 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.54 per cent), Biocon (down 0.54 per cent), Lupin (down 0.27 per cent) and Cipla (down 0.23 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.1 per cent at 14492.5 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 84.55 points at 15938.5, while the BSE Sensex was up 318.98 points at 53223.03.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, JM Financial, Wipro and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Shyam Century Ferro, GKW Ltd, Datamatics Glob, L&T Tech and Cyient hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Walpar Nutritions Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
