NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (up 2.41 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.41 per cent), Cipla (up 0.77 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 0.77 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.37 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories (up 0.29 per cent) were keeping the Nifty Pharma index in the green zone in Thursday's trade.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.73 per cent up at 9,589 around 02:40 pm (IST).

However, Piramal Enterprises (down 1.45 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.41 per cent) and Lupin (down 0.03 per cent) were trading down around that time.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up by 48 points at 10,491, while the BSE Sensex was 142 points up at 33,936.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of NHPC, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India, Steel Authority of India (SAIL), Bank of Baroda, Ashok Leyland, Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Idea Cellular, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Hindalco Industries, ITC and Tata Motors were among the most traded stocks on the NSE.

In the Nifty 50 index, Tata Steel, Larsen & Toubro, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Dr Reddy's Labs, Coal India and Asian Paints were among the top gainers.

However, Eicher Motors, Tata Motors, HCL Technologies, Infosys, Hero MotoCorp and Power Grid Corporation were among the top losers.