Britain raises pensions for Gurkha veterans
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Britain announced a &quot;significant&quot; increase in pensions for Gurkha veterans following prolonged protests from the Nepalese veterans who fought alongside British troops in two world wars.
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A leading pensions research group says the basic state pension could rise to Â£105 a week without any extra cost.
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Business & money: Retirement rewards '25 times higher than workers'.
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Britain's most seriously injured military personnel are to benefit from an improved compensation package, the Ministry of Defence announced today
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Gurkha soldiers from Nepal serving in the British army are to receive full pensions, the Sun newspaper reported Thursday.
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Raising the state pension age to 68 is needed to avoid a future 4p income tax rise, minister John Hutton says.
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France is to increase pension payouts to war veterans from its former colonies, the government says.
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Royal &amp; SunAlliance, second-biggest general insurance company in Britain, announced on Monday it will transfer as much as 1,100 jobs to India to raise the number of employees in the country to 1,200 within a couple of years.
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Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who have been fighting for Britain but receiving unequal retirement benefits since the days of the British Empire will finally receive the same pensions as the rest of the army, the government said Thursday.
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A sergeant who led a an attack on Iraqi forces despite being wounded and a Gurkha who saved the life of a US soldier in Afghanistan are among 90 British servicemen and women to be awarded military honours on Tuesday.
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Britain raises more than Â£5m in the first 24 hours of its appeal for the victims of the Asian tsunami.
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The Gurkhas who have served in the British Army have won an historic fight to be allowed to apply for British citizenship. The decision comes after a lengthy fight by the Nepalese soldiers for the right to
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Four employees of a British security firm killed in an attack in Baghdad were Nepalese nationals who formerly served with Britain's elite Gurkha army regiment, the Foreign Office revealed.
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Gurkhas, who have served with British army for nearly 200 years, won a landmark battle on Thursday to be able to settle in the UK and gain British citizenship.
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Britain said Monday it was sending 900 more soldiers to southern Afghanistan to combat resistance from a resurgent Taliban.
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Ministers are set to announce more money to help workers who have lost their pensions, Gordon Brown tells MPs.
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British Legion poster campaign tackles political controversy over pensions for families.