India, Sept. 9 -- India on Tuesday expressed sorrow at the death of 19 people in widespread public protests in Nepal and called for restraint and the handling of all issues through peaceful means and dialogue. The reaction from New Delhi came a day after Kathmandu and other cities in Nepal were rocked by the so-called "Gen Z protests" by youth organisations against the government's restrictions on social media platforms and failure to tackle corruption.

Leaders of the ruling coalition, which comprises the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), and opposition parties have criticised Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli for the crackdown on the protests. Many of the dead were killed when police opened ...