NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Monday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.
Shares of Piramal Enterprises (down 2.36 per cent) , Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 2.33 per cent) , Aurobindo Pharma (down 1.96 per cent) , Biocon (down 1.81 per cent) , Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 1.25 per cent) , Cadila Healthcare (down 1.13 per cent) , Lupin (down 0.82 per cent) , Cipla (down 0.72 per cent) , Divis Laboratories (down 0.38 per cent) and Dr Reddy's Laboratories (down 0.27 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.09 per cent down at 8023.55 around 10:03 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 138.10 points at 12088.55 , while the BSE Sensex was down 457.3 points at 41007.31.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 4 were trading in the green, while 46 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Tata Motors, SAIL, PNB, JSPL and NBCC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.