NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading mixed with the Nifty Pharma index trading 0.2 per cent up at 9,663.1 around 12:12 pm on Monday.
Shares of Lupin (up 1.64 per cent), Cipla (up 1.24 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 1.03 per cent) and Cadila Healthcare (up 0.90 per cent) were among the top gainers in the index.
Biocon (down 1.67 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.63 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 0.63 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.14 per cent) were trading in the red.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 9.40 points at 10,575.8 while BSE Sensex was down 79.56 points at 35,078.99 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, SBI, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Titan Company, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Vedanta, HPCL and Cipla were among the most traded shares on the National Stock Exchange.