They’ve been described as the world’s most savage soldier, yet the average Nepalese volunteer stands at just five-foot, three-inches tall. Looks are truly deceiving because the men who make the cut to ...

The town of Pokhara, a half hour by plane west of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, lies in a dank and humid valley beneath the glittering snows and granite of the Annapurna range of the Himalayas.

WHEN I LAST reported on the Gurkhas, the elite Nepalese warriors in the service of the British army, there was much anticipation that they would be unleashed on the Taliban. After all, about 150 ...

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 ...

When United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for their expected historic summit in Singapore, they will be protected by men from one of the fiercest warrior ...

The Parliamentary International Relations Committee today endorsed ‘Report Related to Addressing Problems of Former British Gurkhas’ that calls for the formation of a high-level talks team to hold ...

When Tikendra Dewan enlisted in the famed Gurkha brigade of the British army in the early 1970s, he was not thinking much about the future, let alone a comfortable retirement. Like many Nepalis who ...

"If someone says he has no fear, either he is lying or he is a Gurkha." That was how Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once described the legendary courage of the Gurkhas â men whose discipline, loyalty, ...

Hundreds of Gurkhas face being thrown out of the Armed Forces in swingeing new troop cuts, defence chiefs revealed today. The army is shedding 3,000 soldiers, the RAF is losing another 900 airmen and ...