Temple

Hassan's Hasanamba temple, open once a year, opens on October 29, 2026; public darshan runs October 30 to November 10, with Rs 300 and Rs 1,000 tickets.

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel laid the foundation stone of the Rs 125 crore ISKCON Varachha temple at Kosmada, Surat, on October 25, 2026.

India's SAMHiTA project began digitising palm-leaf manuscripts at Colombo's Gangaramaya Temple on October 23, 2026, its first partnership in Sri Lanka.

Kartika Brata began in Puri on October 26 with free stay, food and a darshan queue for about 2,400 registered Habishyalis; unregistered women struggled for beds.

On 25 October 2026 the Muthu Kolakki Amman temple chariot at Puthagaram, Kanchipuram, entered the Dalit colony for the first time in 42 years.

A rush of Bhavani devotees at Vijayawada's Kanaka Durga temple on October 25, 2026 led it to cancel paid special darshan and allow only free Sarva Darshan.

Uttar Pradesh says 22 projects worth about Rs 83 crore are under way at 20 Devi shrines in 19 districts, as temples reported bigger Navratri crowds in October 2026.

The Teppotsavam float festival closing Dasara at Vijayawada's Kanaka Durga temple was held on the Krishna on October 20, 2026, after floods stopped it in 2024 and 2025.

Thiruvananthapuram airport scheduled a five-hour halt to flights on October 20, 2026 so Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple's Alpashi Arattu procession could cross its runway to the sea.

The Supreme Court on October 16, 2026 voided a gift of Erode temple land to Tamil Nadu for a taluk office, holding the State is only a custodian of temple property.

Kulasekarapattinam's Mutharamman temple holds Soorasamharam, the climax of Kulasai Dasara, on October 20, 2026, with over 4,000 police and extra buses deployed.

The ASI says the missing head of the 11th-century Vishnu idol at Khajuraho's Javari temple was found in its store and will be reattached.

A Muslim artist family from Meerut is making the Ravan, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad effigies at Shimla's Jakhu temple for Dussehra on October 20, 2026.

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.

Bangladesh's Hindus began Durga Puja with Maha Shashthi on October 16, 2026, at more than 33,000 mandaps, with border guards deployed and a five-day holiday ahead.

A 19-year-old accused of plotting a mass shooting at the Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora, Illinois, was ordered detained on October 14, 2026.

Tamil Nadu's HR&CE Department now lets devotees carry switched-off phones into temples, easing a September 1 ban; photos and videos stay banned.

UP minister Jaiveer Singh on 14 October 2026 launched Navratri cultural events at 26 Devi temples, to be held on Saptami, Ashtami and Navami.

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.

FSSAI certified Ayodhya's Ram temple trust as an 'Eat Right Place of Worship' on Oct 10, 2026, covering prasad for two years to Oct 2028.

Indrakeeladri's 10-day Dasara opened on October 11, 2026; Rs 100-500 darshan tickets are scrapped, and no tickets will be sold on Moola Nakshatram or Vijayadashami.

Odisha Tourism has listed the 37th Konark Festival for 1 to 5 December 2026, bringing classical dance and music to Konark's Sun Temple.

Datta Guru temples across Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat form a living pilgrimage tradition built on the Guru Charitra and the teaching that all of nature can be a teacher.