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 ...

SINGAPORE — Two police officers stand outside a house not far from the posh Orchard Road shopping district, keeping watch over this city-state’s most famous citizen. But they are not Singaporean. The ...

KATMANDU, Nepal — Satya Bahadur Pun remembers the day in 1961 when he and other young men from his village walked two days across the mountains to try to join the famed Gurkhas. “I was up in the air.

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 ...