NEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.07 per cent down at 8740.9 on Wednesday with its components trading on a mixed note.
Shares of Biocon (up 1.69 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.62 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 1.29 per cent) and Cipla (up 1.10 per cent) were the top performers in the index.
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Reddy's Laboratories (down 3.47 per cent), Lupin (down 1.56 per cent) and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.15 per cent) were trading in the red.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 109.85 points at 10,659 while BSE Sensex was up 365.79 points at 35,515.8 around 11:04 am.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 44 were trading in the green, while 6 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Sun Pharma, Ashok Leyland, Indian Oil Corp, Vodafone Idea, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank and RIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.