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May
Kathmnandu (Rajeev Sharma): Nepal’s newly elected Prime Minister, Balendra "Balen" Shah, has sparked a major political controversy following his first address to the country's Parliament regarding long-standing boundary disputes with India. Speaking on Sunday during a parliamentary session in Kathmandu, the 36-year-old leader claimed that both India and Nepal have encroached upon each other’s territories, drawing sharp criticism from opposition benches at home and raising diplomatic eyebrows in New Delhi. Addressing the House of Representatives for the first time since his party's landslide victory in March, Shah stated that the issue of territorial lines should not be used as a…