Stock market update: Nifty Pharma index falls 0.97% in a weak market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty Pharma index traded negative around 10:29AM(IST)on Tuesday in a weak market.

Strides Pharma Science(up 3.47 per cent) and Dr Reddys Laboratories(up 0.38 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Divis Laboratories(down 2.28 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma(down 2.1 per cent), Biocon(down 1.53 per cent), Alkem Laboratories(down 1.36 per cent) and Alembic Pharmaceuticals(down 1.31 per cent) were the top losers on the index.


The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.97 per cent at 12103.6 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 97.55 points at 15734.5, while the BSE Sensex was down 335.02 points at 52826.26.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 were in the red.

Shares of Zomato Ltd., Vodafone Idea, ONGC, YES Bank and RBL Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of De Nora India, Priti International, Kohinoor Foods, Globesecure Technologies Ltd. and Spacenet Enterprise hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while We Win, Vaxtex Cotfab, Chambal Fertilisers, Lasa Supergenerics and Akash Infra-Proj hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.