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BIG STORY                                                               JANUARY 01, 2021  |       The Indian Eye                          4











                             gOOdBye, 2020
                                       lOngest






                              year ever!









          the Indian eye takes a look at some of the most important new stories from


                          India in 2020, which will make impact in 2021 and beyond





        Our Bureau

        New Delhi
            t  was  a  gloomy  year.  The
            world  seemed  to  come  to
        Ia  standstill.  But,  in  India,
        there  was  no  shortage  of  ac-
        tion. Of course, there was pan-
        demic, but India also had pro-
        tests and political face-offs. It
        was  a  series  of  unforeseeable
        events.  2020  may  go  down  as
        a year of infamy, headlined by
        the COVID-19 pandemic. But
        many  other  important  events
        took  place.  These  events  may
        play a crucial role in the years
        to come.


          CovId-19 ravages the
                    soCIety
            The  first  case  of  the  coro-
        navirus in India was located in
        Kerala on January 30 through
        a medical student who had re-
        turned from Wuhan. This was
        followed  by  the  second  and
        third  cases  in  February.  By
        March, the virus had spread to
        Delhi,  Hyderabad,  Bengaluru                                      two children return home on the last day of 2020
        and  other  cities.  Then  it  was
        a havoc. India overtook other  neighboring  districts  to  their  trains that were launched by the            this  lockdown  period,  while
        nations  to  become  the  nation  hometowns  in  Gujarat  and  Government.  Not  all  reached                 many more have died of hun-
        with  the  second-highest  cases  Rajasthan slowly grew into the  their destinations, though.                 ger, heatstroke and exhaustion.
        in the world.                        largest  mass  exodus  since  the       While the Government has
            As  the  virus  spread,  India  Partition, in March.                 since  said  they  do  not  have        bJP’s temPLe dream
        saw a humanitarian crisis, with         Many  travelled  thousands  any data on the number of mi-                      Comes true
        the lockdown impacting near- of kilometers on foot to reach  grants who died, according to                        On August 5, Prime Minister
        ly  40  million  migrants.  What  their villages in Uttar Pradesh  data  compiled  by  road  safety           Narendra Modi laid the foun-
        started  as  groups  of  migrants  and  Bihar,  while  others  trav- NGO,  198  migrants  lost  their         dation  brick  for  the  Supreme
        walking  from  Mumbai  and  elled  by  the  special  Shramik  lives  in  road  accidents  during                 Continued on next page... >>


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