By Admin 
Stock Market Holiday: Voting for municipal elections in Maharashtra will be held today on January 15. On this occasion, National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE will remain closed today. Both the exchanges had issued circulars giving this information a few days ago.
According to the circular, there will be no trading in equity segment, equity derivatives, commodity derivatives and electronic gold receipts on the election day. In view of the holiday of 15th January, the F&O Sensex expiry of BSE was on Wednesday, 14th January. Apart from Mumbai, voting is also to be held today in cities like Thane and Navi Mumbai.
What is F&O Expiry??
F&O i.e. Futures and Options – This is a type of derivatives trading in the stock market, under which you make a contract to buy or sell the shares at a fixed date in the future without buying them immediately. At the same time, Expiry means that when you buy a future or option contract (F&O contract), there is a fixed time limit for selling it, the last day of which is called ‘Expiry Day’. You have to sell the contract by this day. Otherwise, it gets automatically closed.
List of holidays in stock market in 2026
- 26 January (Monday) – Republic Day
- March 3 (Tuesday)- Holi
- 26 March (Thursday)-Ram Navami
- 31 March (Tuesday) – Mahavir Jayanti
- April 3 (Friday)- Good Friday
- 14 April (Tuesday)-Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti
- 1 May (Friday)-Maharashtra Day
- 28 May (Thursday)-Bakrid
- 26 June (Friday)-Muharram
- 14 September (Monday)- Ganesh Chaturthi
- 2 October (Friday) – Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti
- 20 October (Tuesday) – Dussehra
- 10 November (Tuesday)- Diwali-Balipratipada
- 24 November (Tuesday) – Prakash Guruparva Shri Guru Nanak Dev
- 25 November (Friday) – Christmas
What is the annual budget of BMC?
Voting is taking place in Mumbai today for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. Voting is to be held today for the elections of 29 municipal bodies. In this, an interesting contest is being expected between the BJP led Mahayuti and the Thackeray brothers’ front for governance over the economically prosperous BMC.
The voting process has started at 7:30 am for 2,869 seats of 29 municipal bodies, which will continue till 5:30 pm. Today, a total of 3.48 crore voters will decide the fate of 15,931 candidates, including 1,700 from Mumbai and 1,166 from Pune. Counting of votes will take place on January 16. BMC is considered to be the most prosperous municipal corporation in the country. Its annual budget is more than Rs 74 thousand crores.
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