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(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Krittivas Mukherjee KATHMANDU, April 24 (Reuters) - For nearly two centuries, Nepal's valiant Gurkha soldiers have battled their foes with guns and their ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A group of Nepal’s Gurkhas serving in the British army have rushed back home to lend a hand in the recovery from the massive earthquake. The soldiers from the Queen’s Gurkha ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Britain’s Prince Harry stayed at the village home of a former Nepalese Gurkha soldier who had served in the British army Monday as the prince continues his tour of the Himalayan ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – To protect one of the highest-profile diplomatic events so far this century, Singapore has enlisted the help of its fearsome Nepalese fighters whose large curved knives, according to ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-HerzegovinaSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Nepalese Gurkha soldiers joined NATO-led peacekeepers, European Union troops and Bosnian forces this week for military exercises that ...

The Gurkha Rifles marching contingent passes through Rajpath on the occasion of the 67th Republic Day Parade, New Delhi, India, January 26, 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/India Ministry of Defence On ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal has asked India to halt its recruitment of Gurkhas into the Indian army under a new scheme for shorter military contracts until it was clear what would happen to them when ...

Soldier-turned-author Tim I Gurung with Gurkha veteran Indra Jit Wanem Limbu, 92, in Dharan while interviewing him for his book, The Gurkhas: A True Story. As a boy from a far-flung village in Nepal’s ...

LONDON (AP) — A 13-day hunger strike by former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers came to an end Thursday after the British government agreed to enter talks with the Nepalese Embassy over equal pensions for ...