Overview
- Equity cash trading on the NSE will be shut for the session, with normal operations set to resume on January 16.
- The exchange issued a revised circular that adds January 15 as a market holiday after an earlier notice omitted the date.
- Maharashtra declared an election-day public holiday using powers delegated by the Union Home Ministry in 1968.
- The civic elections include the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in Mumbai alongside other municipal bodies across the state.
- Officials say the holiday is intended to support voter participation in the local body polls.