Lupin (up 0.99 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 0.98 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 0.81 per cent), Alkem Laboratories (up 0.67 per cent) and Cadila Healthcare (up 0.6 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Cipla (down 0.22 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.37 per cent at 14478.95 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 96.1 points at 15859.15, while the BSE Sensex was up 288.57 points at 52875.41.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Trident Ltd, IDFC First Bank, BHEL and GTL Infra were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Stylam Ind, Walpar Nutritions Ltd., Zota Healthcare, Summit Sec and Kothari Petro hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while OCL Iron Steel, DQ Entertainmnt and Viceroy Hotels hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
