(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 ...

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.

Reporting from Katmandu, Nepal — Deo Man Limbu sat in a veterans hall lined with pictures of old soldiers and reflected on his years of service, his battles and his dreams. The retired major with ...

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For decades, Nepal has allowed its ethnic Gurkha soldiers to join the Indian army under a special agreement. The practice came to an abrupt halt last year after India introduced a controversial new ...

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 ...

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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 ...

KATHMANDU–For nearly two centuries, Nepal’s valiant Gurkha soldiers have battled their foes with guns and their lethal kukri knives, which tradition demands must draw blood every time it is unsheathed ...

Nepal’s best and brightest have been recruited while young to fight for Britain for over 200 years, with their pay and pensions a fraction of their fellow British soldiers’ for much of that time. By ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — 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 ...

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