Share market update: Nifty Pharma index up; Sun Pharma rises 2%

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

Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 2.32 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 1.95 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 1.33 per cent) and Cipla (up 1.23 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Lupin (up 0.84 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 0.78 per cent), Divi's Laboratories (up 0.48 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.46 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.08 per cent up at 7886.05 around 10:04 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 70.40 points at 11,488.20 while the BSE Sensex was down 200.14 points at 38,520.43.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 were trading in the green, while 31 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, PNB, Vodafone Idea, Indian Oil Corp, Titan Company, PFC, BEL, Adani Power, REC and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.