February 3, 2011: For the last five months, India has been celebrating and honoring a retired Gurkha soldier (Bishnu Shrestha) who, singlehandedly killed three bandits, wounded eight and drove off ...

THEY have faced down the Nazis, hacked their way through the Burmese jungle and fought the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now the Brigade of Gurkhas, the Nepali soldiers who have served in the British forces ...

A PENSIONER was so moved by the plight of the Gurkhas he has given £1,000 from his own pocket to help the hundreds of Nepalese soldiers and their families. Alec Milne, 74, from Basildon, made the ...

This article by Pinki Sris Rana was originally published in Nepali Times, and an edited version has been republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Brave khukuri-swinging ...

The immensely popular Queen’s Gurkha Engineers are 75 years old this month. To mark the regimental birthday, a parade took place at their Invicta Barracks home in Maidstone supported by The Band of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Mahanta Shrestha could not be more grateful for what Britain has done for him. “I came,” says the Nepalese ...

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