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The Supreme Court tomorrow will hear a plea filed by Ajay Kumar seeking directions to the Election Commission of India to postpone the General Elections for Bihar Assembly in the wake of COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Supreme Court has asked the CBSE and the UGC to take a joint decision on the declaration of results and admissions, while hearing a plea seeking extension of college admission deadlines due to the delayed compartment exams for Classes X and XII.

A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court to quash a government order that wants private hospitals to reserve 80 percent of their ICU beds for COVID-19 patients. Such an order will deal a massive blow to treatment of non-COVID emergency patients, the appeal has claimed.

The Supreme Court today has issued notice on a plea by Senior Advocate Indra Jaising seeking directions for proper and effective implementation of Supreme Court guidelines to regulate conferment of designation of Senior Advocates in 2018 and initiation of process of designation of Senior Advocates.

The order has been passed by a bench comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose in a contempt petition filed by KK Agarwal, against non-appointment of a law member to the Commission.

The Supreme Court while hearing an appeal, has held that district judges in Madhya Pradesh were free to take disciplinary action against employees with more than two children.

The bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Vineet Saran wants to go into the legal details and also to inspect the constitution of the state committee which looked into this, but the court also assured Kumar that his election would not be affected by the pendency of the matter.

The Supreme Court today issued notice on a plea challenging the validity of part of the National Commission for Minority Education Institution Act, 2004 for failing to recognize minorities at the state level.

The Supreme Court today upheld the UGC decision to hold final year exams by September 30.

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking an extension of the admission deadline for the academic year 2020-2021 until the result of the compartment examination (by alternative mode of assessment) is announced by CBSE.