NEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index was trading up 0.08 per cent at 8808.45 on Thursday with most of its components trading in the green.
Shares of Piramal Enterprises (up 3.20 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 2.30 per cent), Lupin (up 1.50 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.61 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Cadila Healthcare (up 0.43 per cent) and Biocon (up 0.26 per cent) too were trading in the green.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 46.85 points at 10,784.45 while BSE Sensex was up 153.13 points at 35,932.2.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, SBI, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Vodafone Idea, Indian Oil Corp, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda and BEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.