- Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb inaugurated the 65th National School Games Under-17 boys at Umakanta Academy Mini Stadium in Agartala on 29th January 2020.
- The foundation stone of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Centre was laid down by the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at Kevadia in Gujarat on 29th January 2020. This will be a state-of-the-art skill Development centre in this tribal area and will run free of charge skill courses aligned to the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF).
- Three-day Narmada Mahotsav is being started in Madhya Pradesh from 31st January 2020 in the picturesque plains of Amarkantak on the occasion of Narmada Jayanti.
- The Health Ministry in an official release issued that the first case of Novel Coronavirus in the country has been reported from Kerala. The patient is a student studying at Wuhan University and has tested positive for Novel Coronavirus.
- The Bangladesh government has allowed the plan to provide school education to Rohingya children up to the age of 14. The Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh were earlier barred from formal education and were receiving primary education in temporary learning centres set up by the UN children's agency UNICEF.
- Bharti Airtel has said that its name has been removed from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade’s (DGFT) ‘denied entry list’ in which a company loses its import licence.
- Arvind Krishna Appointed as CEO, IBM
- WHO Declared Coronavirus as PHEIC
- Rani Rampal won the ‘World Games Athlete of the Year' Award
- World Sustainable Development Summit 2020
