The central bank has fixed office hours for all banks from 9:30am to 4pm for the month of Ramadan.

Transaction hours will be between 9:30am and 2:30pm with a prayer break from 1:15pm to 1:30pm, Bangladesh Bank said in a statement yesterday. Banking services will remain off on Friday and Saturday.

Earlier, the government set office hours for all its offices from 9am to 3:30pm with the same break for prayers.

The Daily Star/Bangladesh/ 19th July 2012