NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading lower in Tuesday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower.

Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 3.94 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 1.94 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (down 1.06 per cent) and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (down 1.02 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.75 per cent), Biocon (down 0.69 per cent), Lupin (down 0.27 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.26 per cent) too were trading lower.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.22 per cent down at 8146.05 around 10:14 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 23.50 points at 11,946.20 while the BSE Sensex was up 104.05 points at 39,888.57.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Vodafone Idea, PNB, Bank of Baroda, Dish TV India, Tata Motors, Sterlite Tech, GMR Infra and Sun Pharma were among the most traded securities on the NSE.