Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is the first Indian (post independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, a British citizen, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

December: The largest earthquake in 40 years originates from the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra island in Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the moment magnitude scale and creating tsunami waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of South Asia. More than 18,000 reported killed in India.

Dr.Manmohan Singh sworn in as the new prime minister of India after Congress forms the United Progressive Alliance with the Left parties.

Virender Sehwag scored the first ever triple century in Test match cricket for India in Multan – a feat he went on to repeat four years later.India‘s swashbuckling opening batsman played a fluent inning and struck a mammoth 309 against Pakistan in the first Test at Multan.