NEW DELHI: Pharma shares were trading with losses in Friday's morning session with their sectoral index trading lower. Shares of Piramal Enterprises (down 1.80 per cent), Cipla (down 1.37 per cent), Biocon (down 1.35 per cent) and Lupin (down 1.35 per cent) were the top losers in the index. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (down 1.13 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 1.12 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (down 1.07 per cent) and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 0.79 per cent) too were trading lower.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.06 per cent down at 8135.75 around 10:13 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 78.95 points at 11,517.95 while the BSE Sensex was down 239.57 points at 38,657.89.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 6 were trading in the green, while 44 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, Dish TV India, Biocon, SBI, NTPC, Ashok Leyland, ONGC, Tata Motors and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.