A number of banks throughout the nation will stay shut for six consecutive days beginning Saturday, i.e October 22 resulting from Dhanteras and Diwali.
The pageant of lights is widely known throughout the nation with nice pomp and pleasure. Forward of Diwali, Dhanteras is one other pageant through which folks purchase gold and silver to convey prosperity to their houses. Whereas Dhanteras marks the start of the five-day pageant, Bhai Dooj is the final day.
Banks will stay shut throughout the nation on Saturday resulting from Dhanteras. It’s also the fourth Saturday of the month.
All of the banks might be closed on October 23 too because it falls on Sundays.
India is celebrating Diwali on Monday, i.e October 24. The banks might be closed throughout India besides in Sikkim capital Gangtok, Hyderabad and Imphal, Hindustan Instances enterprise web site Livemint reported.
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The following day after Diwali, i.e October 25, marks Laxmi Puja. The banks will stay closed in Gangtok, Imphal, Hyderabad and Jaipur.
This yr, Govardhan Puja falls on October 26, towards the standard development of it being celebrated a day after Diwali. The devotees of Lord Krishna mark it to commemorate his gesture of lifting the mighty Govardhan Parvat on his little finger to guard the villagers from the wrath of Lord Indra who introduced rain and flood to the village.
On Govardhan Puja, banks might be shut in Belapur, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Gangtok, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Shimla and Srinagar.
Bhai Dooj might be celebrated this yr on October 27. Chitragupt Jayanti additionally falls on the identical day. The banks will stay closed in Imphal, Kanpur, Gangtok and Lucknow.
Diwali happens on the fifteenth day of the Hindu calendar month of Kartik and is widely known to mark the return of Lord Ram and Sita to Ayodhya after a 14-year exile.