Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.69 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 1.19 per cent), Cipla (up 1.11 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.11 per cent) and Lupin (up 0.91 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Divis Laboratories (down 0.43 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.69 per cent at 14061.6 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 2.95 points at 16566.0, while the BSE Sensex was up 13.13 points at 55595.71.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Devyani International Ltd., Canara Bank and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of FIEM Industries, Dynamatic Tech, MRO-TEK Realty, Apollo Hospital and Hikal Ltd hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while YES Bank, Suryoday Small Finance Bank Ltd., Hero MotoCorp, Stylam Ind and Gulf Oil India hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
