New Delhi, March 25 -- The Indian stock market will observe a mid-week holiday on Thursday, March 26, marking the first of three such closures over the next seven sessions.

According to the stock market holiday calendar shared by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE in December last year, March 26 is declared as a public holiday to mark the occasion of Shri Ram Navami. This is the second trading holiday this month, after March 3 for Holi, apart from the weekends.

Additionally, the next week also remains a truncated one for Dalal Street, with two more stock market holidays on account of Shri Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday on March 31 and April 3, respectively.

The commodity exchange MCX will remain closed in the first half on Marc...