The Biggest Stories of August 22, 2016

Silver Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, coach Gopichand and Bronze Olympic wrestler Sakshi Malik today returned home to a roaring welcome, the kind that is reserved for World Cup winning cricket teams; Prime Minister Narendra Modi today emphasised that there must be dialogue to find a solution to the unrest that has roiled Kashmir for over a month and said "those who have lost their lives during recent disturbances are part of us, our nation; whether the lives lost are of our youth, security personnel or police, it distresses us"; Pakistan has taken legal action against three top Baloch leaders who had allegedly backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supportive words on Balochistan in his Independence Day speech; Lakhs of people have been affected due to heavy rainfall in five states. More than 26,400 people have so far been rescued from flood-hit Bihar, UP, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.