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

Shares of Alkem Laboratories (down 3.7 per cent) , Cadila Healthcare (down 3.13 per cent) , Aurobindo Pharma (down 2.38 per cent) , Cipla (down 2.2 per cent) , Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 1.92 per cent) , Torrent Pharmaceuticals (down 1.46 per cent) , Divis Laboratories (down 0.55 per cent) and Dr Reddy's Laboratories (down 0.53 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.21 per cent down at 9484.35 around 02:13PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 33.45 points at 9005.8, while the BSE Sensex was down 129.68 points at 30542.91.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 26 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank Ltd., JSPL, ITC, Tata Power, Adani Power, SBI, ICICI Bank and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.