In a city known for its diverse culinary offerings, the vibrant and authentic flavors of Nepal have been fairly absent in London’s food scene. That is, until The Gurkhas showed up. Founded by esteemed ...

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 ...

"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, ...

Nepali Gurkha military veterans in Britain have ended their 13-day hunger strike outside No. 10 Downing Street after the British government agreed to hold talks with them over their their ...

GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right. It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers who were fed up with the way we were being treated by ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Afghan army's special-operations forces are among the many Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover. Those forces are highly trained and well regarded, and the UK is considering ...