Kathmandu Hundreds of Britain's Nepalese Gurkha fighters are to lose their jobs in a second round of cuts announced today, which will see almost 3,000 posts slashed from the army.
The British Embassy in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu said around 320 troops would lose their jobs as the United Kingdom's coalition government takes further steps to slash a record deficit.
The steep cutS the ts 3,000-strong Gurkha brigade, which has been part of the British army for nearly two centuries, follow 400 redundancies announced in January.