HIGHLIGHTS

New Delhi, May 29 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 1 pm:

    NATION:
    
    CAL17 SK-PM-LD STATEHOOD
    * Pahalgam terror strike was attack on India's soul, our response decisive: PM
    Gangtok: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Pahalgam terror strike last month was an attack on the soul and unity of India, and subsequent Operation Sindoor was a "decisive response" to terrorists. *

    DEL33 DEF-RAJNATH
    * Day is not far when people in PoK will return to India voluntarily: Rajnath
New Delhi: People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are part of the Indian family and the day is not far when they will return to India's mainstream voluntarily, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. *
    
    DEL36 CONG-PAR-LD SESSION
    * Congress claims special Parliament session being considered on Emergency anniversary
    New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday claimed that a special session of Parliament is being considered next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, and said this will be yet another classic exercise in "diversion and distraction" from real and more urgent issues by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. *

    MDS2 KA-CM-MANGALURU
    * Let harmony prevail, communal hatred end in Mangaluru: CM Siddaramaiah
    Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday insisted that communal harmony must prevail and hatred must end in Dakshina Kannada district. *

    LEGAL:
    
    LGD7 SC-PHONE TAPPING-TELANGANA
    * Phone-tapping case: SC grants interim protection from coercive action to former SIB chief
    New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection from coercive action to former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case. *
    
    BUSINESS:
    
    DEL32 BIZ-RBI-ANNUAL REPORT
    * India poised to remain fastest growing major economy in FY26: RBI
    Mumbai: The country is poised to remain the fastest growing major economy in the world even in FY26, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday. *


    FOREIGN
    
    FGN18 US-INDOPAK-LUTNICK
    * US administration tells NY court India-Pak reached 'tenuous ceasefire' after Trump 'interceded'
    New York: The Trump administration has told a New York court that India and Pakistan reached a "tenuous ceasefire" only after President Donald Trump "interceded and offered both nations trading access with the US to avert a full-scale war.” By Yoshita Singh *

    FGN25 PANAMA-THAROOR-CONG
    * Tharoor slams 'zealots'; says was clearly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks
    Panama City: Amid Congress leaders' swipes at him over his ‘surgical strike’ remarks, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that for those “zealots” fulminating about his supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC, he was "clearly and explicitly" speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars. *

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