LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Campaigners for former Gurkha soldiers seeking to retire in Britain have accused the government of treachery after the publication of immigration guidelines they said would ...

Nepal stopped issuing permissions for its citizens to work in Russia Friday after 10 Nepali soldiers were killed while serving in the war in Ukraine. Nepal also formally asked Russia not to recruit ...

Prince Harry teamed up with his father Charles to honour Gurkha soldiers who helped to secure key sites in Afghanistan at a Buckingham Palace ceremony today. The Prince of Wales, Colonel-in-Chief of ...

MPs joined with veterans to honour the Gurkhas who served and laid down their lives in the British Armed Forces at a memorial ...

Britain will recruit 400 Nepalese Gurkhas for a new artillery regiment, addressing troop shortages and expanding Nepalese soldiers' roles in UK defense. The late and noted American historian Bryan ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Wrapped in white and with their heads shaven, retired Ghurkha soldiers sat cross-legged on the stems of dried rice plants for three days of symbolic and traditional mourning, ...

June 19 -- Tough, wiry and unschooled, Padam Bahadur Gurung walked down from his village in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal to a British army recruiting camp in the plains in the autumn of 1958 with ...

Gurkha soldiers are set to take artillery roles in the British Army for the first time, in a dedicated unit created amid the military recruitment crisis. The King's Gurkha Artillery (KGA) will consist ...

POKHARA, Nepal -- -- POKHARA, Nepal -- Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight -- and die -- with legendary valor for ...

Gurkhas who relocated to a new military base have celebrated their biggest festival at their new home for the first time. Over the summer, 70 of the Gurkha Parachute Squadron moved from Maidstone in ...

The kukri strapped to Mekhman Tamang’s hip belt is more than an ordinary family heirloom. When his father bequeathed the traditional knife to him 10 years ago, Tamang, a third-generation Gurkha ...

Soldiers from the British Army took part in a gruelling Gurkha race where they carried weighted baskets on an uphill course. They attempted to carry a traditional Nepalese basket called a Doko - ...