Nagaland

In January 2024, six workers were killed after a fire broke out in a rat-hole coal mine in Nagaland state.

Last month, Ellen Konyak was shocked to discover that a 19th-Century skull from the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland was up for auction in the UK.

The chief minister of Nagaland, Konyak’s home state, wrote a letter to the Indian foreign ministry describing the act as “dehumanising” and “continued colonial violence upon our people”.

The officers working at the polling station in Chedema village in India’s tiny mountain state of Nagaland on Friday had arrived the day before, all of them women on electoral duty for the first time.

The Northern Angami constituency is Nagaland’s first to be solely managed by women polling officers.