NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading mixed in Monday's morning session with their sectoral index trading higher. Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 2.89 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 2.86 per cent) and Dr.

Reddy's Laboratories (up 0.32 per cent) were trading higher.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 1.75 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 1.58 per cent) and Cadila Healthcare (down 1.48 per cent) were trading with losses.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.42 per cent up at 8178.10 around 10:19 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 23.45 points at 11,575.95 while the BSE Sensex was up 133.23 points at 38,869.46.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 29 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Dish TV India, Infosys, Allahabad Bank, Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, SAIL, Sun Pharma, PNB and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded securities on the NSE.