Former Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai urges PM Balendra Shah to highlight five issues during India visit

Kathmandu, Nov 15 (UNI) Former Nepal prime minister Baburam Bhattarai has urged Prime Minister Balendra Shah to firmly raise a range of outstanding bilateral issues with India during his official visit in mid-November, which include the border dispute, trade deficit, air connectivity, water resources and the Himalayan climate crisis. In an interview with Kantipur, Bhattarai called for a new comprehensive mechanism to address unresolved issues between the neighbours, arguing that Nepal's relationship with India was fundamentally different from its ties with other countries because of their shared open border of around 1,850km. He said Nepal could not adequately address the…