Among the components of the BSE Healthcare index, RPG Life Sciences Ltd (up 6.42%), Piramal Pharma Ltd (up 5.82%),Divis Laboratories Ltd (up 2.36%),Artemis Medicare Services Ltd (up 2.16%),Thyrocare Technologies Ltd (up 2.1%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd (up 2.08%), Cipla Ltd (up 2%), Innova Captab Ltd (up 1.91%), Suven Pharmaceuticals Ltd (up 1.86%), and Alkem Laboratories Ltd (up 1.85%).
On the other hand, SMS Pharmaceuticals Ltd (down 1.61%), Dishman Carbogen Amcis Ltd (down 1.46%), and Kopran Ltd (down 1.43%) turned lower.
At 09:47 IST, the BSE SmallCap was down 24.46 or 0.04% at 54758.12.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 3.94 points or 0.02% at 15812.67.
The Nifty 50 index was up 88.95 points or 0.37% at 24003.1.
The BSE Sensex index was up 315.47 points or 0.4% at 79359.21.
On BSE,1850 shares were trading in green, 1220 were trading in red and 144 were unchanged.
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