{"id":27996,"date":"2026-04-05T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/?p=27996"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:55:05","slug":"banks-will-now-be-closed-for-two-days-a-week-bankers-happy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/27996","title":{"rendered":"Banks will now be closed for two days a week, bankers happy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Now, banks will be closed twice a week. A Cabinet meeting held on Sunday decided to declare a two-day public holiday (Saturday and Sunday) in view of the problem seen in the supply of petroleum products. <\/p>\n<p>Nepal Rastra Bank, Agricultural Development Bank, Nepal Bank and Rastriya Banijya Bank are the government-owned agencies that will automatically be closed on Sunday. The Nepal Rastra Bank, the regulatory body of banks and financial institutions, is also closing the holidays while other private sector banks will also be closed. <\/p>\n<p>Point No. 3 of the Directive No. 14 of the Unified Directive states that the licensed institutions shall compulsorily open their offices and conduct banking transactions on the day of the opening of the Nepal Rastra Bank and the time when the banking office of the Yes Bank commences banking transactions. <\/p>\n<p>Provided that, if the licensed institutions are to conduct their business on the day and time of the opening of the Nepal Rastra Bank, they shall give information in writing to the Bank and Financial Institutions Regulation Department and the concerned supervision department of the bank. \u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Now, banks will be closed twice a week. A Cabinet meeting held on Sunday decided to declare a two-day public holiday (Saturday and Sunday) in view of the problem seen in the supply of petroleum products. Nepal Rastra Bank, Agricultural Development Bank, Nepal Bank and Rastriya Banijya Bank are the government-owned agencies that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,123,126,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-en","category-banking-update-en","category-banking-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/banker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27997,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions\/27997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/26649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}