Colonel Denis Wood, who has died aged 98, was a distinguished officer of the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Goorkhas (The Sirmoor ...

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 ...

A group of Gurkhas have gone to court in London fighting for the right of some 2,000 of the Nepalese veterans to settle in Britain. About 20 of them, many wearing military regalia, attended a hearing ...

British Gurkhas are taking their battle for equal pension rights to the European court of human rights. After winning a battle championed by actor and campaigner Joanna Lumley for equal rights of UK ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each Spring in Nepal, something extraordinary happens: the search begins for the next intake of Gurkha soldiers, young Nepalese men, many still teenagers, all with an ambition to join the British Army ...

Ragprasad Purja (right) says he is forever grateful to Joanna Lumley Two years ago actress Joanna Lumley helped Gurkhas who retired before 1997 win the right to settle in the UK. Gurkha welfare groups ...

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