NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were up in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading in the green.Shares of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 3.67 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 2.61 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 2.30 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.70 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.Piramal Enterprises (up 1.57 per cent), Divi's Laboratories (up 1.56 per cent), Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.37 per cent) and Lupin (up 1.21 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.58 per cent up at 9299.35 around 10:37 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 122.25 points at 11,290.30 while the BSE Sensex was up 418.03 points at 37,472.13.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 44 were trading in the green, while 6 were in the red.
Shares of Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, PowerGrid, YES Bank, BEL, Tata Motors, NTPC, DLF and HDFC Life Insurance Company were among the most traded shares on the NSE.