Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 0.22 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Divis Laboratories (down 1.43 per cent), Lupin (down 1.02 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 1.0 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 0.83 per cent) and Cipla (down 0.8 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.59 per cent at 14431.75 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 71.4 points at 16309.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 263.07 points at 54540.79.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Power, NALCO, SAIL and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Rolex Rings Ltd., MPS Infotecnics, STEL Holdings, CMI Ltd and Century Extrus hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Chaman Lal Setia, Future Market, Transwind Infrastruc, Glenmark Life Sciences Ltd. and Ujjivan SFB hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
