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

Shares of Alkem Laboratories (up 3.33 per cent) , Aurobindo Pharma (up 2.74 per cent) , Dr Reddy's Laboratories (up 1.62 per cent) , Cadila Healthcare (up 1.61 per cent) , Biocon (up 1.51 per cent) , Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 1.14 per cent) , Cipla (up 0.66 per cent) and Divis Laboratories (up 0.23 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.16 per cent up at 10336.75 around 12:01PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 81.55 points at 10392.75, while the BSE Sensex was up 248.52 points at 35159.84.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 44 were trading in the green, while 6 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, BHEL, PNB, Glenmark Pharma, IDFC First Bank Ltd., Bank of Baroda, SBI, Tata Motors and Federal Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.