NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading higher in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading up.Shares of Piramal Enterprises (up 7.65 per cent) , Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.28 per cent) , Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.27 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories (up 1.21 per cent) were the top performers in the index.Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.91 per cent) , Cadila Healthcare (up 0.83 per cent) , Cipla (up 0.57 per cent) and Lupin (up 0.26 per cent) too were trading in the green.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.37 per cent up at 7712.45 around 10:13 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 1.05 points at 11,660.80 while the BSE Sensex was down 76.22 points at 39,222.16.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 42 were trading in the green, while 8 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, BHEL, Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Tata Motors, SAIL, ZEEL, Ashok Leyland, NBCC and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.