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Events in the year 2020 in India.

Incumbents[]

Government of India[]

Photo Post Name
Ram Nath Kovind official portrait.jpg President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Venkaiah Naidu
Shri Narendra Modi.jpg Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Hon'ble Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde.jpg Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde
Om Birla Member of Parliament Rajasthan India.jpg Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
Media address by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri Sunil Arora on 2nd December 2018 (cropped).jpg Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora
Bipin Rawat Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).jpg Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat
Lok Sabha 17th Lok Sabha

State Governments[]

State Governor Chief Minister Party Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh Biswabhusan Harichandan


Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRCP C. Praveen Kumar (Acting)
Arunachal Pradesh B. D. Mishra Pema Khandu BJP Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Assam Jagdish Mukhi Sarbananda Sonowal BJP Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Bihar Phagu Chauhan Nitish Kumar JD(U) Rajendra Menon (Patna High Court)
Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey Bhupesh Baghel INC T. B Radhakrishnan
Goa Mridula Sinha Pramod Sawant BJP Manjula Chellur
Gujarat Om Prakash Kohli Vijay Rupani BJP R. Subhash Reddy
Haryana Kaptan Singh Solanki Manohar Lal Khattar BJP Ravi Shankar Jha
Himachal Pradesh Acharya Dev Vrat Jai Ram Thakur BJP Sanjay Karol (Acting)
Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu Badar Durrez Ahmed
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu Hemant Soren JMM Dhirubhai N. Patel (Acting)
Karnataka Vajubhai Vala B.S. Yediyurappa BJP H. G. Ramesh (Acting)
Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan Pinarayi Vijayan CPI(M) Antony Dominic (Acting)
Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon Shivraj Singh Chouhan BJP Hemant Gupta
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari Uddhav Thackeray Shivsena Dipankar Datta
Manipur Najma Heptulla N. Biren Singh BJP N. Kotiswar Singh (Acting)
Meghalaya Ganga Prasad Conrad Sangma NPP Biswanath Somadder
Mizoram Nirbhay Sharma Zoramthanga MNF Ajit Singh
Nagaland Padmanabha Acharya Neiphiu Rio NDPP Ajit Singh
Odisha Ganeshi Lal Naveen Patnaik BJD Vineet Saran
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore Amarinder Singh INC Ravi Shankar Jha
Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ashok Gehlot INC Pradeep Nandrajog
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil Prem Singh Tamang SKM Satish K. Agnihotri
Tamil Nadu Banwarilal Purohit Edappadi K. Palaniswami AIADMK Indira Banerjee
Telangana Tamilisai Soundararajan (Additional charge) K. Chandrashekar Rao TRS T. B Radhakrishnan (Telangana High Court)
Tripura Tathagata Roy Biplab Kumar Deb BJP Tinlianthang Vaiphei
Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath BJP Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul Pushkar Singh Dhami BJP Ramesh Ranganathan
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Mamata Banerjee AITC Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan

Events[]

January[]

  • 11 January – Bombay High Court stayed a Sessions Court order by Sessions Judge Dinesh Eknath Kothalikar made on Nov 2019 which restored criminal case against Adani Enterprises, its chairman Gautam Adani and managing director Rajesh Adani for carrying out share rigging in connivance with Ketan Parekh in 1999 - 2001 period.[1][2]
  • 27 January – 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.[3]
  • 30 January – The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to India on 30 January 2020 from China. The 1st case of COVID-19 was spotted in Kerala, India.

February[]

  • 8 February – Polling for the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections was held.
  • 11 February – 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.
  • 23 – 29 February – At least 53 people were killed in communal riots in parts of Delhi.[4]
  • 24 – 25 February – 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.[5] 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.[6][7]

March[]

  • 20 March – Kamal Nath resigned from the post of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after a political crisis.[8][9]
  • 22 March – Janata Curfew: India observed a 14-hour lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • 23 March – Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
  • 23 March – Maoist attack in Sukma kills 17 paramilitary personnel.
  • 24 March – Prime Minister Modi announced a 21-day lockdown throughout India from midnight of 25 March to 14 April to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
  • 31 March – Sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, with hundreds of cases linked with people who attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi.[10]

April[]

  • India remained under an extended lockdown throughout the month of April, to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
  • Thousands of inter-state migrant workers were rendered jobless and penniless, causing them to walk thousands of kilometres from state to state due to lack of availability of transport because of the lockdown.[11][12][13] Hundreds of people lost their lives due to exhaustion and hunger.[14][15]
  • 4 April – An FIR was registered against an unknown person in Gujarat for placing an online advertisement to "sell" the Statue of Unity for ₹30,000 crore.[16]
  • 16 April – 2020 Palghar mob lynching.
  • 18 April – Seven IITs have announced plans to boycott the Times Higher Education World University Rankings this year ostensibly because they are not convinced “about the parameters and transparency” of the ranking agency's process, according to a joint statement issued by the directors of the IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai) and Roorkee.[17]

May[]

  • 5 May – Skirmishes began 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.[18]
  • 6 May – Wanted terrorist Riyaz Naikoo of the terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces.
  • 7 May – 13 people were killed from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.[19]
  • 20 May – Cyclone Amphan hit the eastern part of India and lead to flood like situation in many South-eastern states.
  • 27 May – A petroleum gas and oil leak occurred in Indian Oil's Baghjan Oilfield, in Assam.
  • 27 May – A pregnant elephant died after eating a pineapple filled with firecrackers, in Palakkad, Kerala.[20]

June[]

  • 2–4 June – Cyclone Nisarga hit the western coast of India, causing damage in the state of Maharashtra.
  • 5 June- The President of India promulgates three ordinances related to agriculture, which would be later proposed as a bill and consequently passed as an act.[21]
  • 14 June - Bollywood Star Sushant Singh Rajput found dead at his Bandra Residence in Mumbai.
  • 15–16 June – 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.
  • 17 June – India wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to begin 1 January 2021 during the 2020 Security Council Elections.[22]
  • 25 June – Indian Railways suspends all passenger train service (except Rajdhani and Migrant Special Trains) until 12 August 2020.
  • 29 June – Indian Government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit and UC Browser due to the ongoing Sino-Indian Border tensions.

July[]

  • 3 July – 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.
  • 3 July – 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.
  • 5 July – CRPF convoy is attacked by terrorist which results in martyr of 1 CRPF soldier in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.
  • 5 July – Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on Richter scale hits Kargill in Ladakh.
  • 10 July – Wanted Criminal Vikas Dubey encountered.
  • 17 July – Number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 1 million.[23]
  • 21 July – ongoing – Floods in Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam.
  • 29 July – National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), a new policy on education in India approved by the Union Cabinet.
  • 29 July – 2020 Punjab alcohol poisoning. At least 121 people died after drinking toxic, illegally-made alcohol in Punjab.

August[]

  • 5 August – Narendra Modi performed Bhoomi Pujan and laid the foundation stone of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
  • 7 August – 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.
  • 7 August – Heavy Landslide in Munnar, Idukki District, Kerala: 24 killed, 40 trapped; NDRF teams carry out rescue ops
  • 9 August – Fire at a COVID-19 facility in the city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, killed 11 people and left 22 injured.[24][25][26]
  • 9 August – Indian Farmers' Protest was started against three farm acts.
  • 11 August – Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari, has unveiled a microwave device that can disinfect premises in just 30 seconds named ‘Atulya’.[27]
  • 11 August – 3 killed and many arrested following the riots in Bangalore over a controversial Facebook post on Islam's prophet Muhammad by a nephew of Congress politician.
  • 15 August – MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket.[28][29][30]
  • 20 August – A major fire broke out in an underground hydroelectric power plant in Srisailam in the state of Telangana killing 9 people.[31][32]
  • 31 August - National Statistical Office releases data for the first quarter of Financial Year 2020–2021, with GDP in the given period contracting by 23.9% due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India.[33]

September[]

  • 3 September – 118 Chinese apps including PUBG Video Game app banned.[34]
  • 11 September – Retired Navy officer Madan Sharma beaten up for forwarding cartoon on Uddhav Thackeray; four arrested.[35]
  • 14 September - Three Bills on agriculture reforms introduced in the Parliament to replace the ordinances issued during the lockdown on June 5.[36]
  • 30 September - The court acquitted all the 32 accused of the Demolition of the Babri Masjid including L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and several others in the case on account of inconclusive evidence.[37] The special court judge said "“The demolition was not pre-planned.”[38][39]

October[]

  • 10 October – Goa declared first 'Har Ghar Jal' State by the Jal Shakti Ministry.[40]
  • 31 October - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that a law to curb 'Love Jihad' would be passed by his government.

November[]

  • 24 November - The Uttar Pradesh state cabinet cleared the ordinance of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance on 24 November 2020 following which it was approved and signed by state Governor Anandiben Patel on 28 November 2020.[41][42]

December[]

  • 5 December - An idiopathic disease broke out in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. On 20 December, AIIMS and NEERI Research Institute came to a conclusion that pesticides leaching into the water supply is the most likely reason.[43][44][45][46]
  • December - Madhya Pradesh government approved an anti conversion bill similar to the Uttar Pradesh one.[47][48][49][50]
  • 30 December -
    • The Assam government passed a law converting its 700 state-run Islamic schools into regular schools.[51][52][53][54]
    • India's first metallic Monolith appears in Symphony Forest Park, Ahmedabad. The monolith was installed by the private company that is managing the park.[55][56]

Deaths[]

January[]

Sunanda Patnaik
  • 2 January
  • 3 January
  • 11 January
    • , West Bengal classical singer (b. 1950)
  • 19 January
    • Sunanda Patnaik, Gwalior gharana classical singer (b. 1934).[61]
    • Sher Bahadur Singh, 87, politician.[62]
    • Man Sood, cricketer (b. 1939).[63]
  • 26 January – Maharaj Kishan Bhan, virologist and paediatrician (b. 1947).[64]
  • 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[]

Irrfan Khan
Rishi Kapoor
  • 6 April
  • 29 April – Irrfan Khan, actor (b. 1967)
  • 30 April – Rishi Kapoor, actor (b. 1952)
  • 30 April – Chuni Goswami, footballer (b. 1938)

May[]

Ravi Zacharias
  • 1 May – Mathew Anikuzhikattil, 77, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch (b. 1942)
  • 3 May – K. S. Nissar Ahmed, 84, Indian writer and poet (b. 1936)
  • 6 May – Riyaz Naikoo, 35, Wanted terrorist killed in Army clash (b. 1985)
  • 15 May – Shri Krishna Joshi, 84, Indian physicist (b. 1935)
  • 17 May – Ratnakar Matkari, Marathi Play writer (b. 1938)
  • 19 May
    • Ravi Zacharias, Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist (b. 1946)
    • 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
  • 31 May – Wajid Khan, musician

June[]

Sushant Singh Rajput
  • 4 June – Basu Chatterjee, Filmmaker (b. 1930)
  • 5 June – Ved Marwah, Civil Servant (b. 1934)
  • 7 June – Chiranjeevi Sarja, 35, Film actor (b. 1984)
  • 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 martyred 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[]

Saroj Khan
  • 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[]

Pandit Jasraj
Pranab Mukherjee
  • 1 August – Amar Singh, 64, politician (b. 1956)
  • 1 August – Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, 58, politician (b. 1961)[67]
  • 2 August – Kamal Rani Varun, politician, 62, (b. 1958).[68]
  • 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)
  • Rahat Indori
    11 August – Rahat Indori, Poet and lyricist, 70, (b. 1950)
  • 16 August
    • Chetan Chauhan, Cricketer and Politician, 73 (b. 1947)
    • B Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen, conglomerate executive and philanthropist (b. 1933).[69]
    • Vijay Mude, 77, Politician, (b. 1943)
  • 17 August
    • Nishikant Kamat, Filmmaker & Actor, (b. 1970)
    • Pandit Jasraj, Classical singer, (b. 1930)
  • 19 August – Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan, cricketer (b. 1930).[70]
  • 20 August
    • A. Rahman Khan, politician (born 1942–1943).[71]
    • Janmejay Singh, politician (b. 1945).[72]
  • 23 August – A. B. Raj, film director (b. 1925).[73]
  • 31 August – Pranab Mukherjee, Former President. (b.1935).[74]

September[]

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Jaswant Singh
  • 2 September –
  • 5 September – Johnny Bakshi, film producer, director and actor (b. 1932).
  • 6 September
    • Kesavananda Bharati, Hindu monk and civil rights activist (b. 1940).[78]
    • Paul Chittilapilly, Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kalyan and Thamarassery (b. 1934).[79]
    • Nirvendra Kumar Mishra, politician (b. 1944/1945).[80]
    • S. Mohinder, composer and music director (b. 1925).[81]
  • 8 September – Jaya Prakash Reddy, actor. (b. 1946)
  • 10 September – Vadivel Balaji, actor and television personality (b. 1975)
  • 12 September – Sudhangan, journalist, television presenter, editor and novelist (b. 1957)
  • 25 September – S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, playback singer (b. 1946)[82]
  • 27 September — Jaswant Singh, former union cabinet minister (b. 1938)[83]

October[]

  • 8 October – Ram Vilas Paswan, politician (b. 1946)
  • 12 October – C.M.Chang Ret.IAS, politician (b. 1940)
  • 15 October – Bhanu Athaiya, costume designer (b. 1929)
  • 25 October – Mahesh Kanodia, singer and politician (b. 1937)
  • 27 October – Naresh Kanodia, film actor and musician (b. 1943)

November[]

  • 12 November - Asif Basra , film actor
  • 15 November – Soumitra Chatterjee, film actor, director, playwright, writer, and poet (b. 1935)
  • 23 November -Tarun Gogoi,Chief Minister of Assam

December[]

  • 4 December – Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-American physicist (b. 1926)
  • 9 December – Chitra, actress, anchor (b. 1992)
  • 23 December – Sugathakumari, poet, activist (b. 1934)
  • 28 December - Dr. Mahinder Wasta, sexologist, coloumnist. (b. 1924)[84]

See also[]

Country overviews[]

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  • History of India
  • History of modern India
  • Outline of India
  • Government of India
  • Politics of India
  • Timeline of Indian history
  • Years in India

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