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

Shares of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 2.12 per cent), Cipla (up 1.46 per cent), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.14 per cent) and Piramal Enterprises (up 1.04 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.55 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.35 per cent) and Lupin (up 0.15 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.64 per cent up at 8026.55 around 10:16 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 38.65 points at 11,710.80 while the BSE Sensex was up 155.52 points at 39,116.31.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 33 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, SAIL, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda, PNB, Tata Steel and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.