NEW DELHI: Shares of pharma companies were trading on a mixed note in Wednesday's morning session. Shares of Piramal Enterprises (down 3.51 per cent), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (down 2.8 per cent), Cadila Healthcare (down 2.52 per cent), Cipla (down 1.34 per cent) Biocon (down 1.32 per cent) and Dr Reddys Laboratories (down 0.09 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

While Glenmark Pharmaceuticals (up 3.47 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma (up 1.5 per cent), Divis Laboratories (up 1.22 per cent) and Lupin (up 0.29 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 0.87 per cent down at 7,869.7 around 12:08 pm. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 81.30 points at 11,716.6, while the BSE Sensex was 261.0 points at 40,020.2.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 11 were trading in the green, while 39 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, SBI, Indiabulls Housing, JSPL, GMR Infra, Tata Power and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.