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Events in the year 2020 in India.
Incumbents
Government of India
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State Governments
Events
January
- January 27 – Agreement signed between the Government of India, the Assam Government and the Bodo groups to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in Assam.[1]
- January 30 – The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to India on 30 January 2020 from China.
February
- February 8 – Polling for the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections held.
- February 11 – 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election's results announced with Aam Aadmi Party securing 62 of 70 seats to claim an absolute majority in the elections.
- February 23-29 – At least 53 people are killed in communal riots in parts of Delhi.[2]
- February 24-25 – U.S. President Donald Trump visited India for a two-day state visit, addressed a "Namaste (Welcome) Trump" event with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad. Toured Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram and the Taj Mahal at Agra.[3] Received a formal welcome from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Presidential Palace in New Delhi. Conducted a series of meetings with Prime minister Modi and other government officials, as well as Indian business executives.[4]
March
- March 20 – Kamal Nath resigned from the post of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after a political crisis.[5][6]
- March 22 – Janta Curfew: India observed a 14-hour lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- March 23 –
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as the Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
- Prime Minister Modi announced a 21-day lockdown throughout India until 14 April to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
April
- India remained under a lockdown throughout the month of April, to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
May
- May 5 – ongoing – Skirmishes between India and China. Several Indian and Chinese soldiers are injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. About one hundred and fifty soldiers were involved in the face-off which included fistfights and stone-throwing.[7]
- May 6 – Wanted terrorist Riyaz Naikoo of the terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces.
- May 7 – 13 people are killed from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.[8]
- May 20 – Cyclone Amphan hit the eastern part of India.
June
- June 2-4 – Cyclone Nisarga hit the western coast of India, causing damage in the state of Maharashtra.
- June 15-16 – 20 personnel of the Indian army including a commanding officer, are killed in action in the ongoing Skirmishes between India and China at LAC in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh.
- June 17 – India wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to begin January 1, 2021 during the 2020 Security Council Elections.[9]
- June 25 - Indian Railways suspends all passenger train service (except Rajdhani and Migrant Special Trains) till 12th August 2020.
- June 29 - Indian Government bans 59 Chinese Apps including TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit and UC Browser due to ongoing Sino-Indian Border tensions.
July
- July 3
- 8 Policemen of the Uttar Pradesh police are martyred in an encounter with the gang of the wanted criminal Vikas Dubey in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a visit to Nimu Post near the Indo-China border in Ladakh along with Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane and CDS Bipin Rawat amid ongoing India-China border tensions.
- July 5 - CRPF convoy is attacked by terrorist which results in martyr of 1 CRPF soldier in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.
- July 5 - Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on richter scale hits Kargill in Ladakh.
- July 10 - Wanted Criminal Vikas Dubey shot dead by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
- July 17 - Number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 1 million.[10]
- July 21 – ongoing – Floods in Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam.
- July 29 – National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), a new policy on education in India approved by the Union Cabinet.
- July 29 - 2020 Punjab alcohol poisoning. At least 117 people died after drinking toxic, illegally-made alcohol in Punjab.
August
- August 5 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed Bhoomi Pujan and laid the foundation stone of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
- August 7 - Air India Express Flight 1344 Crashed after overrunning the Runway at Calicut International Airport, Kerala. At least 19 people killed, including two pilots and 17 Passengers.
- August 7 - Heavy Landslide in Munnar, Idikki District, Kerala: 24 killed, 40 trapped; NDRF teams carry out rescue ops
- August 9 - Fire at a COVID-19 facility in the city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, killed 11 people and left 22 injured.[11][12][13]
- 11 August - violence in Bangalore over Prophet Muhammad Facebook post.
- 12 August - Binod meme became viral in social media platforms.[14]
Deaths
January
- 2 January –
- Daitari Behera, politician (b. 1938).[15]
- D. P. Tripathi, politician (b. 1954).[16]
- 3 January –
- M. Sakthivel Murugan, politician.[17]
- Rameshwar Prasad, politician (b. c. 1930s).[18]
- 19 January –
- Sunanda Patnaik, Gwalior gharana classical singer (b. 1934).[19]
- Sher Bahadur Singh, 87, politician.[20]
- Man Sood, cricketer (b. 1939).[21]
- 26 January – Maharaj Kishan Bhan, virologist and paediatrician (b. 1947).[22]
- 30 January - Vidya Bal, Marathi Writer (b. 1939)
February
- 9 February – P. Parameswaran, Politician and philosopher. (b. 1927).
- 13 February – Rajendra K. Pachauri, Scientist and Civil servant. (b. 1940).
- 18 February – Tapas Paul, Actor and Politician. (b. 1958).
- 22 February - Krishna Bose, Politician, Educator and Social Worker. (b. 1930)
- 28 February - Baidyanath Prasad Mahto, 72, Politician (b. 1947)
March
- 2 March - Virendra Singh Sirohi, 73, politician (b. 1946)
- 8 March – H. R. Bhardwaj, politician (b. 1937)
- 20 March – P. K. Banerjee, football player
- 22 March – Visu, 74, Indian film director, writer and actor (b. 1945).
- 25 March – Nimmi, 88, actress
- 27 March - Beni Prasad Verma, 79, politician (b. 1941)
April
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- 29 April – Irrfan Khan, Film actor (b. 1967)
- 30 April – Rishi Kapoor, Film actor (b. 1952)
- 30 April – Chuni Goswami, footballer (b. 1938)
May
- 6 May - Riyaz Naikoo, 35, Wanted terrorist killed in Army clash (b. 1985)
- 17 May - Ratnakar Matkari, Marathi Play writer (b. 1938)
- 19 May - Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri, Principal Darul Uloom Deoband
- 25 May - Balbir Singh Sr., 96, Hockey player (b. 1923)
- 27 May - Mujtaba Hussain, writer
- 28 May - M. P. Veerendra Kumar, 83, Politician (b. 1936)
- 29 May - Ajit Jogi, Politician (b. 1946)
- 29 May - Bejan Daruwalla, Astrologer (b. 1931)
- 29 May - Yogesh, lyricist, writer (b. 1943)[23]
- 31 May - Wajid Khan, musician
June
- 4 June - Basu Chatterjee, Filmmaker (b. 1930)
- 5 June - Ved Marwah, Civil Servant (b. 1934)
- 7 June - Chiranjeevi Sarja, 39, Film actor (b. 1980)
- 12 June - Parasnath Yadav, 71, Politician (b. 1949)
- 13 June - Vasant Raiji, 100, Cricketer (b. 1920)
- 14 June - Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, Film and television actor (b. 1986)
- 15 June - Col. Santosh Babu, 38, Indian Army Soldier died in 2020 China–India skirmishes near Ladakh (b. 1982)
- 16 June - Haribhau Jawale, Politician (b. 1953)
- 18 June - K.R. Sachidanandan, 48, Indian screenwriter, director, and film producer (b. 1972)
- 21 June - Rajinder Goel, 77, Cricketer (b. 1942)
July
- 3 July - Saroj Khan, 71, Dance Choreographer (b. 1948)
- 8 July - Jagdeep, 81, Film Actor (b. 1939)
- 10 July - Vikas Dubey, 56, Gangster (b. 1964)
- 11 July - Jyotsna Bhatt, 79-80, Ceramist (b. 1940)
- 13 July - Debendra Nath Roy, 61, Politician (b. 1955)
- 16 July - Neela Satyanarayanan, 71, Civil servant (b. 1949)
- 21 July - Lalji Tandon, 85, Politician (b. 1935)
- 28 July - Kumkum, 86, actress (b. 1934)
August
- 1 August - Amar Singh, 64, politician (b. 1956)
- 1 August - Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, 58, politician (b. 1961)[24]
- 2 August - Kamal Rani Varun, politician, 62, (b. 1958)[25]
- 2 August - Anupama Pathak, Actress, 40, (b. 1980)
- 5 August - Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil, Politician, Ex-CM of Maharashtra, 88, (b. 1931)
- 5 August - Samir Sharma, Television Actor, 44, (b. 1976)
- 5 August - Anil Rathod, Politician, 70, (b. 1950)
- 11 August - Rahat Indori, Poet and lyricist, 70, (b. 1950)
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