Share market update: Pharma shares up; Piramal Enterprises climbs 3%

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

Shares of Piramal Enterprises (up 2.87 per cent), Divi's Laboratories (up 1.29 per cent), Dr Reddy's Laboratories (up 0.81 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 0.59 per cent) and Biocon (up 0.13 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.39 per cent up at 8293.45 around 10:04 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 133.35 points at 12164.85 , while the BSE Sensex was up 444.17 points at 41423.79 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 46 were trading in the green, while 4 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, ITC, NALCO, SBI, GAIL, Zee Ent. and PowerGrid were among the most traded shares on the NSE.