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Defence mechanism
The Nepal Army has no business going into business
India’s trial by fire for soldiers from Nepal
The 39 Gorkha Regiment marching contingent passes through the Rajpath during the 62nd Republic Day Parade-2011, in New Delhi on January 26,…
Forbidden to remember the Kotbada massacre
Gyan, Buddhisara B.K., parents of two laboureres killed in Kotbada airport, Kalikot.It was 8 December 2002, and my documentary जोगीमाराका…
Who will rescue Nepalis from Afghanistan?
Ex-Nepal Army soldier Dhan Singh Dhami worked for a US defence contractor guarding the American Embassy in Kabul and assisted NATO forces in…
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
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…
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
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…
Preparing for the clash of empires
China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe with Prime Minister Oli on Sunday in Baluwatar. Photo: RAJAN KAFLENepal has become one of the locations in…
Russia-Nepal cooperation poised for growth: Ambassador
Photo : KUNDA DIXITNew Russian Ambassador to Nepal, Aleksei A Novikov, spoke to Nepali Times about the prospect of high-level visits by Russian…
Torture systematic in South Asia: ICJ
EXHUMING ACCOUNTABILITY: Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.South…
Girl Gurkhas
Recruitment of women into the British Gurkha Brigade is on hold, but women who trained remain hopeful
Two new books on conflict and conservation
Photo: AKASH CHETTRISam Cowan’s Essays on Nepal: Past and Present deserves a more creative title. But being a retired Colonel Commandant of the…
Lest we forget
Nepali soldiers and porters assemble in Tundikhel in 1915 before marching down to India to join the Allied forces in Europe, Turkey and West…
Nepal Army, Inc
Photo: Bikram RaiThe Nepal Army got a new acting Commander in Chief on Thursday and, with him, a real hope that the military will finally get a…
A military-migrant economy
Families enable ex-Gurkhas to continue global private security workA security worker from Pokhara before boarding his flight to Afghanistan. He…
Why politicians pamper the military
Ramesh Kumar in Himal Khabarpatrika, 8-14 AprilIn September 2017, three months after this fiscal year’s budget was unveiled, a Cabinet meeting…