Indian equity markets BSE and NSE will remain closed for trading on Tuesday, March 3 due to Holi holiday. Although the exchanges have declared a holiday on Tuesday, the festival of colors will be celebrated in large parts of the country on Wednesday, March 4. The country’s largest non-agricultural commodity exchange, Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), will remain closed for trading between 9 am to 5 pm in the first session, but will resume trading in the evening session from 5 pm to 11:30 pm. Meanwhile, the largest agricultural exchange, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), will remain closed for both trading sessions.
Stock market holiday list in the year 2026
In the holiday calendar released last year, the exchanges had initially announced 15 trading holidays, but later added January 15 as an additional holiday due to the Mumbai BMC elections. After this, the domestic markets remained closed on 26 January due to Republic Day. Equity markets remain closed on two more occasions in March. Markets will remain closed for Shri Ram Navami on Thursday, March 26 and Shri Mahavir Jayanti on Tuesday, March 31.
The next holiday will be on Friday, April 3, which will be Good Friday. Markets will also remain closed on Ambedkar Jayanti on 14th April, Maharashtra Day on 1st May and Bakrid on 28th May. The second part of the year includes Muharram on 26 June, Ganesh Chaturthi on 14 September and Gandhi Jayanti on 2 October. Dussehra is on 20th October, followed by Diwali Balipratipada on 10th November and Guru Nanak Jayanti on 24th November. The last trading holiday of the year will be Christmas on 25 December.
A small surprise in the circular is that there is no mention of Diwali holiday as it is falling on a weekend (Sunday). Muhurta trading will take place on Sunday, November 8, 2026, and timings will be announced later. Exchanges may make changes to any of the above holidays, for which a separate circular will be issued in advance.
Stock market is falling for two consecutive days
If we talk about the stock market, it closed with a decline for two consecutive days. Where on the last trading day of last week, a fall of more than 900 points was seen in the Sensex. On Monday, Sensex saw a fall of more than 1000 points. According to the data, on Monday, due to increasing tension in West Asia, there was a sharp decline in the local stock market as the sentiment of investors was affected and BSE Sensex plunged by 1,048 points while NSE Nifty suffered a loss of 313 points. Weak trend in global markets and huge capital withdrawal by foreign institutional investors also adversely affected investor sentiment.
BSE Sensex based on 30 shares fell 2,743.46 points or 3.37 percent to 78,543.73 in early trade. Later it closed at 80,238.85 points with a decline of 1,048.34 points or 1.29 percent. Similarly, during trading, the 50-share NSE Nifty fell by 575.15 points or 2.28 percent to 24,603.50 points. Later it closed at 24,865.70 points with a fall of 312.95 points or 1.24 percent. Due to this fall, stock market investors lost Rs 6.59 lakh crore.