With Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi going on a four-day visit to Nepal next week, all eyes will be on the issue of the ...
Hari Budha Magar, a former soldier in the Gurkha regiment, set out to be the first double above-the-knee amputee to scale the mountain. Hari, 43, who lives in Canterbury, took on the challenge to ...
A gunfight broke out between security forces and armed miscreants in Imphal East, Manipur, following an attack on local ...
A moving service of remembrance has been conducted in Kosovo commemorating the first British soldiers who paid the ultimate ...
The Gorkha Regiment retaliated after armed miscreants fired several rounds at some farmers who were working in a paddy field ...
For more than 200 years, the British army has recruited soldiers from Nepal for its Gurkha regiment. Gurkhas have fought as British soldiers in two world wars and other notable conflicts.
Hari Budha Magar lost both legs when an IED exploded while he on patrol in Afghanistan A former soldier in the Gurkha regiment who lost both legs in Afghanistan is to take on Mount Everest.
So far, 26 Victoria Crosses, the UK's highest award for bravery, have been awarded to Gurkha Regiments. Nearly 28,000 Gurkha candidates compete for just 200 places in the British Army each year.
Chandigarh: The 1st Gorkha Rifles (1 GR), one of the Indian Army’s oldest and most distinguished regiments, celebrated its Regimental Reunion on Oct 18-19 at Subathu, Himachal Pradesh.
The First Gorkha Rifles (1GR), one of the Indian Army’s oldest and most distinguished regiments, commemorated its regimental reunion at its Centre in Subathu from October 18-19. On the occasion ...
Nepal's External Affairs Minister Arzu Rana Deuba's five-day visit to India has reignited the issue of Gorkha recruitment. The Indian Army continues to face a severe shortage of Nepali Gorkhas in ...