Natco Pharma Ltd.(up 0.66 per cent), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.55 per cent), Granules India Ltd.(up 0.54 per cent) and Pfizer Ltd.(up 0.41 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(down 2.13 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.(down 1.95 per cent), Biocon Ltd.(down 1.72 per cent), Laurus Labs Ltd.(down 1.49 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(down 1.23 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Pharma index was down 0.76 per cent at 15165.9 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 132.9 points at 19395.85, while the BSE Sensex was down 457.55 points at 65054.55.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 were trading in the green, while 41 were in the red.
Shares of Suzlon Energy, IOB, Bank of Maharashtra, JP Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of SaskenTech, Apollo Micro Systems, MPS Ltd, HLV Ltd.
and Dynamatic Tech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Yatra Online, FutureLifestyleFash, Shree Ram Proteins, Manoj Vaibhav Gems N and AKG Exim Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
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