But honestly, just because there are bad things happening globally, doesn’t mean the world is entirely in ruins. So, here are some of the empowering things that have happened in January 2020.    

1. Over 100 Army personnel & 30 civilians carried a pregnant woman and walked for 4 hours in waist-deep snow so that she can deliver on time. 

2. Over 70 Lakh people in Kerala observed Republic Day by taking a pledge to protect the constitution and formed a 621 Km human chain from North to South Kerala. 

3. Captain Tanya Shergill made history by becoming the 1st woman parade adjutant leading an all-men contingent at India’s 71st Republic day parade. 

4. A war memorial dedicated to service animals is going to open in India for the very first time in Meerut. It will be dedicated to dogs, horses, mules and all other service animals for their outstanding contribution to military service. 

5. Simran from Rohtak and Kajal from Fatehabad who are two daughters of marginalized farmers scored over 99% in the JEE Main 2020 and made their parents proud. 

6. Actor Deepika Padukone becomes the first Bollywood celebrity to feature in a Louis Vuitton campaign and makes history.      

7.  The Indian Hockey team donated $25,000 to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal, in order to help Australia recover from devastating bush fires.

8. Kerala mosque hosted a Hindu wedding ceremony and gifted the couple a gift of ₹ 2 lakh and 10 sovereigns of gold. 

9. Protesters at Shaheen Bagh erected a 40-foot high, 300 kg iron map of India near the foot over bridge that read, ‘We the people of India reject CAA, NPR, NRC’.

10.  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it is on its way to launch the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan in 2022. 

11. Mumbai becomes ‘Maximum city‘ from January 27 as a majority of eateries, malls, multiplexes and restaurants will be open 24×7 in the city. 

12. Union Home Ministry officials confirmed that for the first time, the upcoming Census Data Collection will include data on households headed by a transgender and members living in the family. 

13.  To deter the problem of public urination Bruhut Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) installed huge mirrors on the walls so that people feel embarrassed urinating in public.  

14. Helicopters were being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potatoes for all those endangered animals who were fighting for survival in Australian bush fires.  

15. A 17-year-old high school student named Wolf Cukier discovered a planet on his first day of internship in NASA. 

16. With a crime rate of 152.2, Kolkata came out on top to be the safest city in the country, for the second year in a row. 

17. A 23-year-old visually impaired prodigy, Tapaswini Das cracked Odisha’s Civil Services Examination in her first attempt. 

18. A Sikh woman, who was supposed to travel back to India from Australia after a 10-year hiatus, cancelled her tickets to help provide food to the thousands of bushfire victims.  

19.  Deepika Padukone joined the JNU protests with students against the violence that broke out in New Delhi. 

20. Kerala government proposed a plan to make reading of Preamble of the Constitution a part of school and college assemblies.

21. Iron lady Irom Sharmila brought her twin babies to join Bengaluru in anti-CAA protests. 

22. 19-Year-Old Sweety Kumari from Bihar was awarded ‘International Young Player Of The Year’ in rugby. 

23. The National Capital got its first-ever smog tower in Lajpat Nagar which would suck air pollutants and can remove up to 80% of the particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10). 

24.  Artist Bilie Eilish created history by becoming the youngest artist and the first woman to get all these four titles ( Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist) in the same year.

Looks like the year didn’t have a bad start.