NEW DELHI: Gains in Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 2.53 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 2.21 per cent) and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (up 2.09 per cent) were giving a boost to Nifty Pharma index during afternoon trade on Monday.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.2 per cent up at 8,707 around 02:40 pm.

Shares of Cadila Healthcare (up 2.07 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.07 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 0.55 per cent), Lupin (up 0.43 per cent) and Cipla (up 0.28 per cent) were also trading with gains.

However, Divi's Laboratories (down 0.95 per cent) and Biocon (down 0.11 per cent) were the two stocks that were down around that time.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 71 points at 10,839, while the BSE Sensex was up 219 points at 35,662.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.

Bharti Airtel, UltraTech Cement, Bajaj Finance, Grasim Industries and Sun Pharma were leading among Nifty gainers.

On the other hand, UPL, Power Grid Corporation, HCL Technologies, Tata Steel and ONGC were among the top losers in the Nifty index.