NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading on a mixed note in Monday's session with their sectoral index trading lower.

Shares of Cadila Healthcare (up 2.44 per cent), Lupin (up 2.31 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 1.98 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 1.77 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.75 per cent) and Alkem Laboratories (up 0.6 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While Dr Reddy's Laboratories (down 2.52 per cent), Biocon (down 1.95 per cent), Cipla (down 0.93 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.78 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.06 per cent down at 9337.9 around 02:28PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 56.30 points at 9307.8 , while the BSE Sensex was up 159.37 points at 31802.07 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, Motherson Sumi, SBI, Ashok Leyland, RBL Bank Ltd., Zee Ent., Tata Power and Vedanta were among the most traded shares on the NSE.