NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading higher in Wednesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading higher.
Shares of Biocon (up 2.75 per cent), Divi's Laboratories (up 1.16 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 0.86 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.52 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 0.29 per cent), Lupin (up 0.12 per cent), Cipla (up 0.08 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.03 per cent) were among the top gainers.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.13 per cent up at 8431.55 around 10:00 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 89.95 points at 12145.75 , while the BSE Sensex was up 301.26 points at 41268.12 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 44 were trading in the green, while 6 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, SAIL, Bharti Airtel, United Spirits, SBI, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda and Vedanta were among the most traded shares on the NSE.