Among the components of the BSE Healthcare index, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd (up 16.75%), Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals Ltd (up 8.04%),Gufic BioSciences Ltd (up 5.28%),NGL Fine Chem Ltd (up 4.82%),Vimta Labs Ltd (up 4.62%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Divis Laboratories Ltd (up 4.45%), Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd (up 3.81%), Strides Pharma Science Ltd (up 3.76%), Suven Life Sciences Ltd (up 3.63%), and Sanofi India Ltd (up 3.37%).
On the other hand, Syngene International Ltd (down 9.35%), Vijaya Diagnostic Centre Ltd (down 4.27%), and Biocon Ltd (down 2.53%) moved lower.
At 09:46 IST, the BSE SmallCap was down 22.01 or 0.04% at 49250.63.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was down 22.75 points or 0.15% at 15147.78.
The Nifty 50 index was down 65 points or 0.27% at 24263.95.
The BSE Sensex index was down 275.77 points or 0.34% at 79840.72.
On BSE,1705 shares were trading in green, 1314 were trading in red and 166 were unchanged.