Picture source: X/Indian Air Force LONDON: In a historic reversal of colonial times, two top guns from the Indian Air Force will soon be training Royal Air Force fighter pilots in the UK.The two IAF instructors will train RAF aircrew officers who are completing flying training at No. 4 Flying Training School in RAF Valley…
ANI | Updated: Oct 09, 2025 12:56 IST Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the partnership between India and UK is driven by “trustworthiness, talent, and technology”.Following high-level talks with his British counterpart, Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Mumbai today, PM Modi stressed that India’s dynamism and…
The UK government prepared a secret contingency plan dubbed “the Armageddon scenario” in the lead-up to the 1997 handover for the evacuation of millions of Hong Kong residents who might have wanted to flee the city, according to newly unsealed documents. The British national archive documents date back to 1989 in the period immediately preceding…
This article was first published on May 5, 1975 To the boom of welcoming naval guns firing a Royal salute and the skirl of Gurkha pipers, the Queen was yesterday welcomed to Hong Kong as she sailed across Fragrant Harbour. Amid waving flags and beneath the skyscrapers of Hong Kong and Kowloon, the Queen and…
The UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on Sunday that Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter jets intercepted Russian aircraft flying close to the airspace of Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).According to the ministry, RAF fighters intercepted the Russian aircraft as part of the United Kingdom’s contribution to Nato’s enhanced air policing in the region.The UK…
It was shortly after 2 a.m. on March 2, the police said, when two members of the British Royal Air Force approached a statue of Paddington Bear, sitting placidly on a park bench in Newbury, England, and holding his favorite snack: a sandwich dripping with marmalade. The men then kicked, broke apart and stole Paddington,…
Gp Capt John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before World War Two. The last Battle of Britain pilot, Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC celebrating his 105th birthday at the British Embassy in Dublin, Ireland. Group Captain Hemingway passed away peacefully on March 17 at the age of 105….
Addressing the British House of Commons in August 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the pilots of the Royal Air Force who were staving off an impending German invasion of the British Isles in what would be known as the Battle of Britain. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much…