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.

Ellie Aghayeva, a senior from Azerbaijan studying neuroscience and politics, hasn’t been publicly linked to any of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that roiled Columbia’s campus.