Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.13 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 0.37 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.34 per cent) and Cipla (up 0.05 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Biocon (down 0.56 per cent), Dr Reddys Laboratories (down 0.46 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 0.37 per cent), Alkem Laboratories (down 0.17 per cent) and Torrent Pharmaceuticals (down 0.13 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.23 per cent at 14255.55 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 54.6 points at 16985.65, while the BSE Sensex was up 203.4 points at 57093.16.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, NALCO, Bharti Airtel, SAIL and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Madhya Bharat Agro, 8K Miles Soft, Indian Energy Exchg, Pritika Auto Ind and Technocraft Ind hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Inventure Grwth and Nakoda Group Of Ind hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
