HI tirtha22 - in fact these are already on India's T List ( http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/twhs.php?id=5573 )

As for the rest - do you know to what we owe this sudden "rush" of news articles about possible new sites wanting to go for UNESCO status? India had a major update of its Tentative List in 2014 after a process which was reported thus on this Web site back in early 2014 "India selected 57 sites for revised tentative list out of 238 sites including 6 cultural landscapes. Total of 238 properties were proposed out of which 162 were cultural and 76 were natural, mixed or cultural landscapes"

Are many of the sites which didn't get on trying again? Or is it election time with every state politician trying to convince the electors that he/she is working very hard to put their town/region on the map??

Yeah you are right. This should have been under "Sites attempting inscription soon".

Telengana is a newly formed state in India and it is trying hard to carve out its own identity. So they are speeding up the process of the inscrition of this site as early as possible.

Croatia - Baljenac Insland (Fingerprint Island)

Report from Indonesia claimed that Croatian are planning to nominate Baljenac Fingerprint Island to be WHS.

https://travel.detik.com/read/2017/04/03/172248/3463853/1520/pulau-yang-unik-mirip-si dik-jari

China - Industrial Heritage of Cangnan County

China for the first time put in central policy to preserve its modern industrial heritage, and Industrial Heritage of Cangnan County is selected to be prepared for WHS nomination.

http://news.66wz.com/system/2017/03/14/104973227.shtml

The idea to propose Pont de Quebec is finally ended as the owner, Canadian National Railway, is not OK.

Canadian Arctic Reserves

Request by IUCN to protect these following sites as WHS

- Remnant Arctic Multi-Year Sea Ice and the Northeast Water Polynya Ecoregion, encompassing the entire Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the North Water Polynya.
- The North Baffin Bay Ecoregion, which includes Lancaster Sound.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadas-last-ice-area-cited-134400492.html

There are a whole lot of aspiring sites listed in this forum topic. Too many perhaps to list in one post! Here is a summary of the current activity we can likely expect for the remainder of 2017.

Between 2016 - 2017 - currently no expected additional nominations
Portugal Updated Tentative List (19)
Iran Updated Tentative List (10)
Turkey Updated Tentative List (10)
Cabo Verde Updated Tentative List (8)
Pakistan Updated Tentative List (8)
China Updated Tentative List (6)
Namibia Updated Tentative List (4)
Malaysia Updated Tentative List (3)
Ecuador Updated Tentative List (3)
Switzerland Updated Tentative List (2)

Progressing - additional nominations expected
Spain Updated Nominations (5)
Italy Updated Nominations (4)
France Updated Nominations (3)
Australia Updated Nomination (1)
Korea Updated Nomination (1)
Thailand Updated Nomination (1)

USA Pending - 9 Nominations

Planned Tentative List in 2017
Japan - up to 10
Canada - up to 10
Poland - up to 8
Nigeria - up to 6
South Sudan - up to 6
Cambodia - up to 3
Brunei - up to 2
Liberia - up to 2