Tops of 2004

Surprises of the year

• NDA losing power in the center


• Greece winning the Euro 2004 football championship


• FC Porto wins the UEFA champions league


• Sehwag scores triple century against Pakistan


• Sensex rocks

Scandals of the year

• US soldiers caught abusing Iraqis on camera


• DPS - MMS scandal

Movies of the year

• Apthamitra


• Kill Bill

Happy news of the year

• Super monsoon in Karnataka


• India flies its indigenous aeroplane “Saras”


• Rajyavardhan Rathore gets silver for India in Olympics


• India thrashes Pakistan in Pakistan in the Friendship Cricket series

Disappointment of the year

• Bush comes back to power


• Deve Gowda becomes the kingmaker in Karnataka

Deaths of the year

• Tsunami rocks south Asia including India and takes thousands with it


• Soundarya dies in a plane crash in Bangalore


• Veerappan is shot dead in Tamil-nadu by the STF


• Christiano Junior dies on the field in Bangalore after scoring a goal

Flops of the year

• India-Shining advertisement campaign and Bharat Uday yatraof BJP


• Kannada filmdom’s 7 week moratorium on non-Kannada movies

Tussels of the year

• Ambani brothers fight out


• Kanchi seer Vs Govt of Tamil-Nadu

Stupid moments of the year

• Wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson


• David Beckam admits of purposefully fouling and no action against him


• Pak scientist Abdul Q Khan admits of selling nuclear secrets to Libya and Iran and that is termed as an internal matter of Pakistan


• Uma Bharti is thrown out of BJP, but is taken in again citing no reason

People of the year

• Sonia Gandhi
  For managing the Indian government by sitting outside


• Citizen of USA
  For voting Bush back to power


• Michael Schumacher
  For beating all F1 records and making others look like carting drivers