The Biggest Stories of August 23, 2016

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to the Kashmir today. He will review the situation and may hold talks with people of the valley; A United Nations panel confirmed that six places cited by India as addresses of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan are correct; Prime Minister Narendra Modi told top leaders of BJP that nationalism is the identity and original agenda of the party. He said that nationalism and patriotism are the tools to fight sectarian politics in India; In the wake of floods in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the state has received 14 per cent less rain than is standard for the monsoon, but the devastation, he said, is man-made; A woman from a village in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh delivered her child on a boat due to heavy floods in the state; Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was caught on camera, being carried by two policemen during his visit to the flood-hit areas of the state. Defending himself, Mr Chouhan said "they lifted me before I could realise or react"; Politicians from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh competed to welcome Olympic Silver medalist PV Sindhu who returned home to Hyderabad on Monday.