Daily Current Affairs – 22 January 2026

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In an attempt to reinforce protection of newborns against unsafe abandonment, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) will conduct a publicity campaign named Don’t Throw, Give to Us. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and Bikaner West MLA Jethanand Vyas (Jaipur, 21 January) released the poster of the campaign. The program aims at deterring such acts of abandoning new babies in areas like bushes or drain pipes and encouraging them to give infants to government shelters/protection homes, Palna Grih, the CWC,...

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The Rajasthan government will provide several public welfare benefits as Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) on the completion of two years of Pran Pratishtha of Ram Llla in Ayodhya. On 22 January, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma will be visiting a state level programme at Sirohi and DBT will be distributed to beneficiaries of various schemes. The fifth instalment will also be transferred to the Chief Minister by the Nidhi Chief Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi. scheme. With this, he will also open...

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The performance of Rajasthan DISCOMs under PM-KUSUM Component-C has won a Gold Award, which demonstrates the leadership of the State to feeder-level solarisation of agriculture. It was given by Union Power Minister Manohar Lal at the annual award ceremony of the All India DISCOMs Association at SCOPE Auditorium, Delhi and received by Aarti Dogra, Chairperson of Rajasthan DISCOMs. Rajasthan is now a pace setter in the PM-KUSUM initiative - a notable Government of India initiative to integrate the agriculture sector...

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In the Aravalli mountain range, the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary has been declared an Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) by a notification by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Union Minister Bhupender Yadav brought to the limelight this Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Eco-Sensitive Zone notification when he said that the notice would not only conserve the flora and fauna of the region but also assist indigenous communities who live in and around the sanctuary. The relocation is also associated with the enhancement...