– 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]
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.[14]
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.[15][16][17] Hundreds of people died due to exhaustion and hunger.[18][19]
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.[20]
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.[22]
6 May – Wanted terrorist Riyaz Naikoo of the terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces.
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.
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.[27]
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.[28]
18 July – 2020 Amshipora murders. Indian military personnel were responsible for the killing of three Kashmiri laborers, after claiming they were terrorists.
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'.[32]
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.[33][34][35]
3 September – 118 Chinese apps including PUBG Video Game app banned.[39]
8 September - Narendra Modi inaugurates Rajasthan Patrika sponsored Patrika Gate circular park in Jaipur. Patrika Gate is the largest circular park on a traffic signal in Asia.[40]
11 September – Retired Navy officer Madan Sharma beaten up for forwarding cartoon on Uddhav Thackeray; four arrested.[41]
10 Oct – Goa declared first 'Har Ghar Jal' State by the Jal Shakti Ministry.[47]
14 Oct - Tata Group's Tanishq brand pulled down its advertisement that was released a week ago following social media uproar that alleged glorification of Love jihad.[48]
5 December - Anidiopathic 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.[52][53][54][55]
The Assam government passed a law converting its 700 state-run Islamic schools into regular schools.[60][61][62][63]
India's first metallic Monolith appears in Symphony Forest Park, Ahmedabad. The monolith was installed by the private company that is managing the park.[64][65]
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Amandeep Drall, Indian golfer wins the fourth leg of the 2020 Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour[66]