NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading higher in Thursday's morning session with their sectoral index trading higher.Shares of Piramal Enterprises (up 2.53 per cent), Divi's Laboratories (up 1.60 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.09 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.88 per cent) werethe top gainers in the index.
Lupin (up 0.60 per cent), Cipla (up 0.50 per cent), Biocon (up 0.32 per cent) and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 0.18 per cent) too were trading higher.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.79 per cent up at 7852.40 around 10:11 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 26.50 points at 11,717.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 101.89 points at 39,214.63.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Vodafone Idea, SBI, SAIL, PNB, TV18 Broadcast, GMR Infra and JSPL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.