Inhalant use by children leads to poor performance in school and has been observed to precede substance use later in life. There is paucity of data on inhalant use among school children in India, particularly in the Northeast region of the country. We determined the prevalence and documented inhalant use characteristics among schoolchildren in the Northeast region of India. This cross sectional study was conducted in six states in the Northeast region of India. Schoolchildren between eighth and eleventh standards from the capital areas of the states were included in the study. Data were collected using a questionnaire. Analysis was done using descriptive statistics and Chi-square test. Of the 4074 enrolled students, data from 3943 students who responded to the inhalant use question were analyzed. Mean age was 14.8 ± 1.2 years and 51.2% of participants were male. The proportion of students who had ever used inhalants (ever user) was 18.8% and adhesive/glue was the inhalant misused by most of the students. A higher proportion of males than females were ever users (P ≤ 0.001) and the most common place of use was at home (33.1%). Being in the presence of an older person using an inhalant or tobacco was found to be associated with use of inhalants among students. Nearly one-fifth of the students had used inhalants and nearly half used inhalants in the past month. Sensitization of the parents and school authorities to the problem, as well as preventive and curative services, should be considered.

The increasing frequency of landslides has become a matter of concern in Nagaland, a north‐eastern state of India. Noklak town, the administrative headquarter of the Noklak district in the eastern part of Nagaland bordering Myanmar, is also affected by slope stability issues. A major landslide in 1980 caused major damage to parts of the township. The problem has grown in magnitude and influence over the last four decades, damaging an area of about 1.84 km2 and several households. Slope movements have caused immense distress to the local populace by posing a constant threat to nearly one‐fourth of the town's built‐up area, roads, and cultivated tracts. Surface instability has also hampered India's Act East policy with South‐east Asian countries by disrupting the sole motorable route to the International Trade Centre at Dan (Pangsha), between India and Myanmar. A landslide susceptibility map (LSM) was generated using the Bivariate Yule coefficient (Yc) method. The LSM delineates the study area into three categories, with 23%, 23%, and 54% in high, moderate, and low susceptible zones, respectively. This was superimposed with elements such as buildings, population, roads, and cultivated tracts to assess the effects of landslides on the population and infrastructure. From the present study, it is estimated that 334 buildings, 1235 people, 2.99 km of roads, and 8 ha of cultivated landfall lie within the moderately and highly susceptible zones. Considering the rapid developmental activities that will ensue with the recent upgradation of the subdivision to that of the district, the data generated will be useful for urban sprawl and land use planning, to minimise and mitigate the loss of life and property due to landslides.