<h1>Stock markets closed for Maharashtra civic polls; trading and settlement suspended across equity, derivatives, commodity and EGR segments.</h1> Exchanges designated January 15 as a trading holiday for the capital-market segment due to the municipal corporation elections, suspending trading and settlement activities across equity, derivatives, commodity and electronic gold receipt segments; the state government concurrently declared a public holiday affecting government, semi-government entities, banks and public undertakings within the civic jurisdictions.