Granules India(up 1.71 per cent), Alkem Laboratories(up 1.67 per cent), Pfizer(up 1.58 per cent), Lupin(up 1.39 per cent) and Gland Pharma(up 1.39 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Laurus(down 0.37 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals(down 0.36 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals(down 0.33 per cent), Abbott India(down 0.29 per cent) and Alembic Pharmaceuticals(down 0.26 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was up 0.64 per cent at 12626.45 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 224.6 points at 17537.5, while the BSE Sensex was up 765.03 points at 58737.65.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 50 were trading in the green, while 0 were in the red.
Shares of JP Power, Zomato Ltd., , and were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of
, BLS Int. Services, , and Kamdhenu hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Piramal Ent., , and Veekayem Fashion & Apparels Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.