Three new sites, two of them geological landscapes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, have taken India's UNESCO Tentative List to 81 entries.

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• Three sites were added to India's UNESCO Tentative List: the Baratang karst-mud-volcano complex, the Andaman Subduction Volcanoes and the Sirpur Cultural and Archaeological Landscape.
• The Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO issued a press release on the additions, which take the Tentative List to 81 sites.
• Baratang Island in Andaman and Nicobar has limestone caves, karst landforms and active mud volcanoes arranged in four clusters of small vents.
• Narcondam and Barren Islands are described as the only Quaternary-period subduction volcanoes in the inner volcanic arc chain of the Burma-Andaman-Java complex.
• Barren Island has a 2-kilometre-wide caldera formed by the collapse of a stratovolcano during the Pleistocene epoch.
• It is India's only confirmed active volcano, with eruptions recorded since the late 18th century.
• Only the landmasses of Barren and Narcondam islands are proposed for listing.
• The Geological Survey of India declared Barren Island a Geoheritage site in 2025.
• Sirpur lies in Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh, on the eastern bank of the Mahanadi River.
• A Tentative List is an inventory of properties a country considers for nomination, and inclusion does not make a site a World Heritage Site.
• India has 45 World Heritage Sites, comprising 37 cultural, seven natural and one mixed site, and signed the Convention on November 14, 1977.