Police and JNU students were injured after they clashed during a march by the students’ union here on Thursday, with police claiming that they were assaulted by the protestors.

The Union Ministry of Education wrote to the ministries of information and broadcasting, and electronics, asking them to stop the dissemination of a controversial NCERT textbook through digital platforms and electronic media, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday thanked the media for bringing to the fore the issue concerning NCERT’s Class 8 social science book containing “offending” contents on corruption in the judiciary.