Heritage

Kashmiri Pandits and residents are restoring Srinagar's roughly 700-year-old Shri Durgeshwari Temple in Bana Mohalla without government funds, reports said in late October 2026.

Ahead of the 27th Hornbill Festival from December 1 to 10, 2026, Nagaland is pressing the Centre to scrap the Protected Area Permit and readying tribal morungs at Kisama.

Cuttack's Bali Jatra 2026 will have Indonesia as its first partner country and go plastic-free; second-phase plot registration runs until October 30 ahead of auctions in November.

UNESCO experts who reviewed Hampi from October 24, 2026 will report in six weeks; they want parking moved from the Salu Mantapa, the DC said.

Sirpur in Chhattisgarh and two Andaman geological sites were added to UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List on October 20, 2026, a first step to nomination.

IGNCA's Brihattar Bharat conference, held in New Delhi on October 14-16, 2026, gathered scholars from about 50 countries to study India's cultural links abroad.

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.

The Navaratri procession of the Saraswathi and two other idols left Padmanabhapuram Palace on October 9, 2026, for Thiruvananthapuram after the royal sword handover.

London Sharad Utsav, run by the Bengal Heritage Foundation, will mark Akashvani's centenary at its Durga Puja in Ealing from 16 to 18 October 2026.

The Supreme Court on 7 October 2026 criticised the ASI and Delhi's civic body after finding a Lodhi-era monument used as a cow shed and dumping yard.

Dibrugarh University opened a free online archive of 53,275 pages of Assamese, Tai and Sanskrit Sanchipat manuscripts on 6 October 2026.

India's Ministry of Culture is using artificial intelligence under the Gyan Bharatam Mission to digitise and decode manuscripts, while a parliamentary panel urges a wider AI-led roadmap.