Morning digest: Heed the Constitution or face chaos, says CJI, notice to Centre on anti-graft Act, and other top stories of the day

A select list of stories to read before you start your day It is in the best interests of the nation to heed to the ethics and morality of the Constitution; otherwise, “our hubris will end with a plunge into chaos”, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said on Monday. The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to respond to a petition challenging two amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act. Ten years after the 26\11 terror strikes, Maharashtra is better placed to benefit from real-time, actionable intelligence, processed through its Central Monitoring System (CMS) and the Lawful Interception System (LIS). With one eye focussed on a candy and another covered with layers of bandage, 19-month-old Hibba on Monday drew the attention of both patients and attendants at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital’s Ophthalmology Ward No. 8. In a stern speech at Monday’s ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the Kartarpur corridor, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh charged Pakistan with supporting terrorism in Punjab. The speech was a departure from statements by other leaders at the event, including Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, who spoke of the hopes for peace emanating from the corridor. As campaigning for elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly ended on Monday evening, the ruling BJP and the Congress sounded upbeat. The State goes to the polls on Wednesday. Follow our comprehensive election coverage here The leading scholar on the Indus Valley scripts, who passed away on Monday, knew more about Indian epigraphy and the linguistic aspects of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan than some specialists, writes Romila Thapar Thousands of farmers plan to march to the capital this week, chanting the slogan “Dilli chalo,” in a Kisan Mukti March to demand that government bring in legislation providing a guaranteed minimum support price for their crops and freedom from debts. The show of muscle at the Dharma Sabha of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in Ayodhya was clearly intended to pressure the executive, the judiciary, and the various stakeholders in the dispute to pave the way for the construction of the temple. When the four men with high blood pressure and obesity — three of them pushing 50 — got together in mid-2017, not many would have predicted that in a little over a year, they would have transformed into ‘ironmen’. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is looking into the trades of certain entities offering portfolio management services (PMS) to ascertain whether there was any conflict of interest between their investment advice and their own trading activities.