A year like no other
- POSTED ON: 23 Dec, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Bhavya Venkatesh
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This year has been unpredictable in many ways. Pandemics, natural calamities, political moves, and more, shocked not just the nation but the world itself.
If there’s one thing 2020 will forever be associated with, it’s COVID-19. The disease has established a firm grip around the world, with very few countries escaping its wrath. It was declared a pandemic on March 11 and, since then, countries around the world, including India, went into lockdown to stop the virus from spreading. Words such as ‘quarantine’, ‘testing’, ‘isolation’, ‘social distancing’ and so on suddenly became commonplace, as did the practice of wearing masks and washing hands regularly. As we inch towards 2021, the thought of vaccines offers a glimmer of hope.
Later in the year, unhappy farmers in India protested against three new agriculture reform laws that were passed. This is an ongoing protest.
In the U.S., Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election and became the president-elect and vice president-elect respectively. Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched two NASA astronauts into space in a historic mission to the International Space Station; the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to space.
Closer home, India was elected for a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the eighth time in history, and on July 29, The Union Cabinet in India approved a new National Education Policy after a gap of 34 years.
Check out this timeline for more things that happened across the globe…