2. BJP leader Lalji Tandon. (April 12) Lucknow's Azad Chowk
3. Thangjam Manorama of Imphal, Manipur (July 15)
4. The estate of the late Priyamvada Birla. Khaitan & Co represent theBirla family while Fox Mandal represent Rajendra Lodha.
5. The Sethusamudram Canal connecting the Palk Straits with the Gulfof Mannar is causing Indo-Sri Lankan tension.
6. The Nepalese Maoist insurgency
7. The Mason-Dixon Line separates the states that kept slaves from thestates that didn't, prior to the US Civil War of 1861-65. The "slavestates" all voted Bush while most "free states" voted Kerry.
8. The Tibetan monks at Sherab Ling Monastery. Their religious chantswon the Grammy for traditional world music.
9. Major Rajyavardhan Rathore. Pritchard won the first individualOlympic medal(s) for India at Paris in 1900 (200 metres silver and 200 m hurdles silver).
10. The digitised colour version of Mughal e Azam was rendered by the IAAA.
11. Ustad Vilayat Khan.
12. The school decided to expel Veerappan's 12-year-old daughterPrabha, a class VII student
13. Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD of Biocon Ltd.
14. "Detoxification" of course!
15. "Finisterra" is Andy Bichlbaum, of an organisation of hoaxsterscalled Yes Men. Bichlbaum pretended to represent Dow Chemicals (whichowns Union Carbide) and pledged $12 billion compensation to the Bhopalvictims on the 20th anniversary of the gas tragedy.
16. Yasser Arafat
17. Sivits was the first US soldier convicted for the Abu Ghraibprisoner abuses.
18. Search engine Google, which made its initial public issue in August.
19. Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 911 fame!
20. The Ansari X prize went to American Mojave Aerospace Ventures for designing and flying SpaceShipOne which fulfilled the set conditions of being a privately financed, three-seater spaceship capable of two successful flights to 100 kms above the Earth within the same week.