Share market update: Pharma shares advance; Biocon rises 1%

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

Shares of Cadila Healthcare (up 3.41 per cent) , Biocon (up 1.34 per cent) , Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 0.87 per cent) , Aurobindo Pharma (up 0.77 per cent) , Torrent Pharmaceuticals (up 0.67 per cent) , Lupin (up 0.38 per cent) and Cipla (up 0.21 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.25 per cent up at 9907.7 around 11:59AM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 103.95 points at 10534.0, while the BSE Sensex was up 371.02 points at 35785.47.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, SBI, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Bank of Baroda, RBL Bank Ltd. and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.