The country鈥檚 banks and the stock market will reopen today after remaining closed for three days due to general holidays announced by the government.
The government imposed a curfew across the country from midnight past Friday, as the unrests centring quota reform protests in the country were on the surge and more than one hundred people were killed and several thousand others got injured till Friday in clashes across the country, starting from July 16.
The government also announced general holiday for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, keeping offices, including banks and the stock market, shut.
On Tuesday, the government asked to keep offices open from 11:00am to 3:00pm. It also decided to keep curfew relaxed from 10:00am to 5:00pm on Wednesday and Thursday in Dhaka.
Bangladesh Bank executive director Mezbaul Haque, also the spokesperson for the central bank, told 抖阴精品 that banks were asked to keep their specific branches open from 11:00am to 3:00pm.
He also said that banks would decide on which branch offices they would reopen.
Mezbaul said that if internet was not available, customers would get all services which were not fully dependent on internet. Customer can withdraw and deposit money in banks and transfer money to other banks, he said.
Regarding the reopening of stock exchanges, Rezaul Karim, executive director and spokesperson for the Bangladesh Securities Exchange Commission, said that the country鈥檚 stock exchanges would operate from today from 11.00am to 2.00pm, subject to availability of internet.
鈥楾rading on both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange will start today. Brokerage houses and the bourses will operate based on availability of internet,鈥� he said.
