New Delhi, June 26 -- The Indian stock market is closed on Friday, 26 June, due to the Muharram holiday. Trading in equities, equity derivatives, and securities lending and borrowing (SLB) on both the BSE and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) will remain shut for the day.

Ahead of the holiday, Indian benchmark indices extended their winning streak to a third consecutive week on Thursday-the longest in seven months-as easing crude oil prices and recent measures to support the rupee and attract foreign inflows boosted investor sentiment.

The Nifty 50 ended 0.14% higher at 24,056, while the BSE Sensex gained 0.14% to close at 77,100.47. Both indices surged more than 1% during the session before paring most of their gains amid profit-bookin...