NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading with gains in Monday's morning session with their sectoral index trading higher. Shares of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (up 3.29 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (up 1.84 per cent), Lupin (up 1.58 per cent) and Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.41 per cent) were the top performers in the index. Biocon (up 1.33 per cent), Dr.

Reddy's Laboratories (up 0.67 per cent), Piramal Enterprises (up 0.43 per cent) and Cipla (up 0.09 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.15 per cent up at 8132.70 around 10:03 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 82.20 points at 11,337.05 while the BSE Sensex was down 320.88 points at 38,016.13.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, Indian Oil Corp, L-T Fin Holding, Ashok Leyland, Vedanta, Tata Motors, IDFC First Bank and BEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.