FGN48: NEPAL-YOUTH-3RDLD PROTEST ****19 killed as youths clash with police over social media ban in Nepal; Home Minister Lekhak resigns Kathmandu: At least 19 people were killed and more than 300 others injured on Monday after police used force during protests by youths that rocked the Nepalese capital and other parts of the country over the government’s ban on social media sites, officials said.**** FGN46: NEPAL-MINISTER-RESIGN ****Nepal Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigns Kathmandu: Nepal’s Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak on Monday resigned following violent protests in Kathmandu and other parts of the country over the government’s ban on social media sites, the Nepali Congress sources said.**** FGN39: CHINA-XI-BRICS ****President Xi calls for united response by BRICS countries to face Trump’s trade challenges Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for a unified response by the BRICS countries to trade challenges posed by the US, saying that Washington’s tariff wars severely disrupted the world economy and undermined international trade rules.**** FGN24: NEPAL-UML-SINOINDIA ****Nepal’s ruling party urges India and China to withdraw Lipulekh trade agreement Kathmandu: Nepal’s ruling CPN-UML has expressed reservations over an agreement between India and China to resume border trade through Lipulekh pass, urging both countries to withdraw from the arrangement.**** FGN19: UKRAINE-ZELENSKYY-TARIFFS ****‘Right idea’ to impose tariffs on countries making deals with Russia: Zelenskyy New York/Washington: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that it is the “right idea” to impose tariffs on countries making deals with Russia, without naming India.**** FGN36: US-NAVARRO-INDIA ****It’s ‘blood money’: Trump’s trade advisor Navarro’s new rant on India’s purchases of Russian oil New York: US President Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday termed India’s purchases of Russian oil as “blood money” and said Delhi didn’t buy oil from Moscow in large quantities before the Ukraine conflict.**** FGN9: SINGAPORE-MINISTER-INDIA-ASEAN ****ASEAN benefits when China, India engage: Singapore minister Singapore: Describing India and China as “drivers of Asia’s growth”, a Singaporean minister on Monday said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gain when New Delhi and Beijing engage.**** FGN32: UK-VISA ****UK’s new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sets out harder line on migration London: Britain’s newly-appointed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday set out a harder line on immigration as she warned of visa suspensions for countries that refused to “play ball” and take back illegal migrants.**** FGN22: BANGLA-YUNUS-CRITIC-ARREST ****Bangladesh police arrest Liberation War veteran, critic of Yunus-led interim govt Dhaka/New Delhi: Bangladesh police on Monday said they arrested 1971 Liberation War veteran and former bureaucrat Abu Alam Shahid Khan, a prominent critic of Muhammad Yunus’s interim government, amid a series of detentions of dissenting voices since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s regime.**** FGN40: LANKA-LD HUMAN RIGHTS ****UNHRC calls for trying Sri Lanka’s human rights violators under universal jurisdiction Colombo: Sri Lanka’s alleged human rights violators would be tried under universal jurisdiction, the UNHRC in Geneva reiterated on Monday, whereas the island nation opposed international intervention on its human rights situation.**** PTI GSP