Nepal has registered its first same-sex marriage, which activists hailed as a victory for LGBT rights. Authorities in the western Lumjung district formally registered the union of Maya Gurung ...

“When I served in the British Army, I was directly under the British crown, under the Queen,” he tells SBS Nepali. Mr Gurung says the news of Queen Elizabeth’s death came as a shock.

Lachhiman Gurung was born on December 30 1917 at Dakhani village in the Tanhu district of Nepal. He enlisted in ... he had two sons from a second marriage. He farmed a two-acre plot and owned ...