NEW DELHI: Most pharma counters were trading with gains during Wednesday's session, keeping the sectoral index up.
The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.70 per cent up at 10,317 around 02:30 pm.
Shares of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 3.54 per cent) were the top gainers of the pack, followed by Cipla (up 1.72 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 1.65 per cent) and Lupin (up 1.60 per cent).Biocon (up 1.40 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.75 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 0.53 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories (up 0.33 per cent) too were in the green zone.
Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.17 per cent) were down, while those of Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories (down 0.01 per cent) were almost flat at that time.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 16 points at 11,051, while the BSE Sensex was 100 points down at 36,552.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Indiabulls Housing Finance, Vedanta, UPL, GAIL (India) and YES Bank were among the top Nifty gainers.Bharti Infratel, Tata Motors, ITC, HCL Technologies and Wipro were among the top losers in the Nifty index.