NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading with gains in Friday's afternoon session with its sectoral index trading in the green.Shares of Piramal Enterprises (up 1.46 per cent), Lupin (up 1.41 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.95 per cent) and Biocon (up 0.57 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.Cadila Healthcare (up 0.55 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.47 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories (up 0.44 per cent) too were trading with gains.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.30 per cent up at 8911.35 around 12:41 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 45.90 points at 10,838.40 while the BSE Sensex was up 130.15 points at 35,997.59.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of SAIL, YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, Bank of Baroda, Motherson Sumi, SBI, SBI Life Insurance Company and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.