Ministry of Culture Signs MoU with France’s National Library to Preserve India’s Manuscript Heritage

October 27, 2026 11:26 PM

Ministry of Culture Signs MoU with France’s National Library to Preserve India’s Manuscript Heritage

The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), or National Library of France, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Paris on 26 October 2026 to strengthen institutional cooperation in the preservation, digitisation, research and dissemination of manuscript and documentary heritage. The MoU was signed and exchanged under the Gyan Bharatam Mission, by Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and Gilles Pécout, Pr...

Vice President calls for discovery, preservation, publication of unpublished Sanskrit manuscripts

October 6, 2026 6:10 PM

Vice President calls for discovery, preservation, publication of unpublished Sanskrit manuscripts

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan on Tuesday called upon teachers and students of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University to undertake the discovery, preservation, critical editing and publication of unpublished Sanskrit manuscripts. Participating in the University’s Second Convocation in New Delhi, he said the Gyan Bharatam Mission, backed by a foundational corpus of ₹500 crore for manuscript preservation and documentation, is bringing India’s vast manuscript heritage to th...