Current Affairs Digest: 22 August 2026

Comprehensive coverage of pivotal national and international developments on 22 August 2026: BRICS Ministerial Declarations in Chennai and Visakhapatnam, INS Sudarshini's Lokayan 2026 voyage reaching Lisbon, IAF's completion of Pitch Black and Udara Shakti exercises, Mission Zero for sanitation workers, NBA Access and Benefit-Sharing disbursals, Digital Agriculture and Pulses missions, CSIR-NIScPR's Vigyan Pragati Platinum Jubilee, and strategic reviews of the Siliguri Corridor.