NEW DELHI: Pharma stocks Biocon (down 1.52 percent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 1.33 per cent), Divis Laboratories (down 0.95 percent), Lupin (down 0.41 percent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 0.38 percent) and Cipla (down 0.38 per cent) were incurring losses throughout the last hour of Tuesdays trading session, keeping the sectoral index down.The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.40 per cent down at 9,282 around 3 pm.However, shares of Cadila Healthcare (up 2.12 per cent), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 1.73 per cent) and Dr.
Reddys Laboratories (up 0.76 per cent) were trading with gains around that time.
Criteria NSE Nifty50 index was down 73 points at 10,727, while the BSE Sensex was 180 points down at 35,368.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 12 were trading in the green, while 38 remained in the red.
Bajaj Finance, GAIL (India), ITC, HDFC and HDFC Bank were among the leading gainers in the Nifty index.On the contrary, Vedanta, Indian Oil Corporation, HPCL and BPCL were leading amongst the Nifty losers.