Torrent Pharma ascended 6.61% to Rs 257.95 and topped gainers in BSE’s ‘A’ group shares. The other gainers in the list were ABB, LIC Housing Finance, Reliance Energy and GMR Infrastructure.
Freshly, Torrent Pharma Ahmedabad based healthcare company had instigated Rimonabant, which is an anti-obesity molecule, for the first time in India under the trade name Rimoslim. The drug aims many cardio-metabolic risk factors that can lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes or dyslipidaemia.