Opening Sanskrit Bharati's all-India conference in Kangra on October 31, 2026, Governor Kavinder Gupta urged teaching Sanskrit to youth and researching its texts.
A 34-line inscription from Harihara II's reign, dated to about 1387 CE, was found near Nandalike in Udupi district, reported on October 30, 2026.
New work by Yifeng Huang, Ken Ono and colleagues, reported on 30 October 2026, shows the Rogers-Ramanujan identities are one case of an infinite family tied to knots.
At the 52nd All India Oriental Conference in Haridwar, Ramdev announced a Sanatan Shastra Shuddhi Abhiyan, a scholars' panel to examine claimed interpolations in Hindu texts.
The 52nd All India Oriental Conference opened in Haridwar on October 29, 2026; its chairman proposed calling the field Indian Studies instead of Oriental Studies.
Skanda Sashti's Soorasamharam falls on Sunday, November 15, 2026, as the Shashthi tithi begins near midnight on November 14; Thirukalyanam is on November 16.
Akshaya Navami (Amla Navami) falls on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, as Navami tithi covers that forenoon; Gopashtami is on November 17.
India's Culture Ministry and the Bibliothèque nationale de France signed an MoU in Paris on October 26, 2026 to digitise and conserve Indic manuscripts.
The 52nd All India Oriental Conference meets at the University of Patanjali, Haridwar, from October 29 to 31, 2026, on Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems.
Kali Puja falls on the night of November 8, 2026, timed for the midnight Nishita Kaal inside an Amavasya that runs from 11:27 am November 8 to 12:31 pm November 9.
Narak Chaturdashi's dawn Abhyang Snan and Diwali's Lakshmi Puja both fall on Sunday, November 8, 2026, as Chaturdashi runs at sunrise and Amavasya by evening.
Rama Ekadashi falls on November 5, 2026, because Ekadashi is the tithi at sunrise that day; the fast is broken on November 6 before Dwadashi ends.
Kartik begins on October 27, 2026 in North India's purnimanta calendar and on November 10 in the amanta calendar; Kartik snan starts on October 26.
The ASI is preparing a preliminary dig at Vaishya Tekri in Ujjain after a survey found a cluster of Buddhist stupas and a water reservoir; a larger project may cost Rs 60 crore.
Most panchangs place Govardhan Puja 2026 on November 10, as the Pratipada tithi that begins on the afternoon of November 9 is present at sunrise only on the 10th.
A 2026 study of plant remains from Jognakhera, Haryana, finds farmers kept Harappan winter and summer crops and rotated legumes after the Indus cities declined.
Living Veda 2026, 'From Shruti to Shakti', meets in Puducherry on October 24-25 to study the Vedic goddesses through Sri Aurobindo's reading.
Ahoi Ashtami is on November 1, 2026; in Delhi stars appear about 6 pm but the moon rises at 11:40 pm, so the fast ends at starlight.
Valmiki Jayanti falls on Monday, October 26, 2026, in most calendars, as the Ashwin Purnima tithi is present at sunrise that day; Sharad Purnima is on October 25.
Karwa Chauth falls on October 29, 2026, with moonrise in Delhi at about 8.17 pm; the lunar tithi and local moonrise explain why timings differ by city.
Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini opened the Rakhigarhi Mahotsav on October 19, 2026, announcing a Harappan corridor plan and a UNESCO bid.
India's ambassador handed a replica of the 9th-century Nalanda copper plate, a Sanskrit record of Nalanda's links with Srivijaya, to Jakarta's Nalanda Institute in mid-October 2026.
On 17 October 2026 Nalanda University held a condolence meeting for Arvind Sharma, the McGill scholar of Hindu thought and comparative religion who died on 29 September.
A programme at Jammu's Raghunath Ji Temple training young women as panditains, taught by Banaras scholars, has grown from five girls to about 150 on a waiting list.
A Hamburg-led study, announced Oct 15, 2026, used synchrotron X-rays and machine learning on 85 palm-leaf manuscripts to identify palm type and preparation non-destructively.
Tula Sankranti falls on Oct 17, 2026, about 7:50 pm IST, some 24.6 days after the Sept 23 equinox: the gap equals the 24.2-degree ayanamsa from axial precession.
Saraswati Avahan falls on 16 October 2026 under Mula nakshatra, opening four days of worship of the goddess of learning, with Saraswati Puja on 17 October.
Navratri's 6th day, Friday October 16, 2026, honours Katyayani. The Vamana, Kalika and Bhagavata Puranas each explain her name and role in a different way.
Sharadalok, billed as the first Kashmiri magazine in the Sharada script, was released at Himachal Pradesh Central University's Dehra campus, reported 14 October 2026.
Tripura University opened an IKS corner on 12 October 2026 for students preparing for Bharat BoudhIKS 2.0, a national Indian Knowledge Systems exam set for 21 November.
Varanasi will host the sixth Sanskriti Sansad on 3-5 November 2026, with about 3,000 saints and a youth-led Gen Z conclave on India's knowledge traditions.
BAPS head Mahant Swami Maharaj opened the Akshar-Purushottam Sanskrit Pathshala at Neasden temple, London, on October 13, 2026, its latest Sanskrit school after Mumbai and Sarangpur.
IGNCA's three-day Brihattar Bharat conference on India's cultural links abroad opens in Delhi on October 14, 2026, with delegates from 50 countries.
S. Jaishankar opened the Nirāmayatā exhibition on healing in South Asian texts at Delhi's India International Centre on October 12, 2026.
A three-day Sanskriti Sansad in Varanasi from 3 November 2026 will give young speakers most of the floor in a parallel Gen Z conclave on India's knowledge heritage.
The Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, launched a digitised rare manuscripts library portal as its five-day Diamond Jubilee Week (11-15 October 2026) began.
The Education Ministry has approved five Centres of Excellence for classical Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit, per an October 1, 2026 memorandum.
The eighth Vishwarang festival, held in Vaishali, Patna and Nalanda from October 3 to 8, 2026, focused on Indian knowledge traditions, translation and Asian ties.
At a Sanskrit university convocation in Delhi on 6 October 2026, Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan urged scholars to edit and publish unpublished manuscripts.
Dibrugarh University opened a free online archive of 53,275 pages of Assamese, Tai and Sanskrit Sanchipat manuscripts on 6 October 2026.
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