On 30 July, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh took an aerial survey of flood-affected areas of Nagaon, Morigaon and Kaziranga in Assam.

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader was accompanied by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh.

The minister had earlier reached Guwahati to take stock of the situation as 19 lakh people are reeling due to floods in 22 districts of the state.

He also visited the Bhagatgaon camp to meet flood-affected residents in Morigaon district.

In what can be termed as a rather impractical move, Nitish Kumar's government introduced the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Bill, 2016 on 30 July according to which, a woman in Bihar can be prosecuted by the state if her husband consumes alcohol without her knowledge.

According to the Bill, all the other adult members of the house will be arrested and sent to jail if a person in the family is found possessing or consuming alcohol at his residence.

The Bill also reportedly says that a collective fine will be imposed on a village if there are habitual offenders there.

After Millennium City Gurugram (earlier known as Gurgaon) came to a standstill on the night of 26 July following heavy rains, the price of the chaos has been paid by Navdeep Singh Virk.

Virk has been issued a transfer notice by the Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana government. According to media reports, he has been transferred to Rohtak.

As per orders, Sandeep Khirawar will be the new Gurugram police chief.

Virk was among the officers seen on the ground to manage the situation in Gurugram when NH-8 and other areas were flooded.

Calling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch a campaign to free Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has said it was about time that India took concrete steps to take back the "captured and disputed" land.

"Prime Minister Modi should begin a campaign to free PoK. Nawaz Sharif has the nerve to say that Pakistan will take Kashmir at any cost. Our children look at Kashmir only on the maps but Pakistan has captured it. When a cowardly nation captures a part of a great nation, we can't just sit silently," said Ramdev.

He added that the Prime Minister should take concrete steps to destroy active terrorist organisations targeting India from the Pakistani soil.

Earlier, describing Kashmir as an "unfinished agenda" of the United Nations, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to raise the issue at every international platform and provide all support to Kashmiris.