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US president and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi expected to roll out a raft of clean energy initiatives for India’s polluted cities, with a post-2020 climate deal also high on Obama’s agenda
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
Population of the endangered species now at 2,226, with campaigners hailing the latest statistics
Jason Burke in Delhi
Many birds get injured or killed as thousands take to the terraces to fly kites to celebrate Makar Sankranti on 14 January, marking the arrival of spring
Elizabeth Soumya
Priya Pillai stopped from boarding London flight and is reportedly named in a government circular listing absconding criminals, despite having a valid visa and no criminal record
Adam Vaughan and John Vidal
Queensland government’s plans to encourage Indian company’s $16.5bn project could render others ‘financially unviable’
Lenore Taylor, political editor
Janaki Lenin: A unique participatory initiative in Mumbai helps residents deal with their fear of living with leopards
The international news agenda tends to focus on things that go wrong. Here we present a selection of the year’s good news stories, as a counterbalance to the ravages of war, violence, disease, natural disasters, corruption et al
Guardian staff
Janaki Lenin: Forest officials had ignored warning that relocating animal who had lost fear of humans was a dangerous and misguided conservation strategy
Janaki Lenin
Janaki Lenin: The nilgai is a common crop pest in India. Religious connotation of the antelope’s name stymies management of the species. Efforts are being made to change its name.
Obama hopes to sustain global warming momentum next month but initiatives will not be on scale of US-China climate change accord
Suzanne Goldenberg in Lima
Janaki Lenin: Scared residents of Talawade in Karnataka are calling for forest officials to recapture a tiger, suspected of killing a woman and chasing vehicles, that has been released into a wildlife reserve near their village
Janaki Lenin
Janaki Lenin: Indian think tank says the US-China climate deal is neither historic nor ambitious, and would lead to dangerous temperature rises
Janaki Lenin
Government backdown means Indian owners won’t be required to replace razed critically endangered habitat until two years into the project
Oliver Milman
Agriculture hit by both urban and rural pollution as wheat and rice yield decrease significantly, study finds
Azeen Ghorayshi
Janaki Lenin: The 3,000MW Dibang dam, rejected twice as it would submerge vast tracts of biologically rich forests, is to get environmental clearance – but huge local opposition could stall the project
Janaki Lenin
Janaki Lenin: Delhi is the most polluted city in the world, but it may actually be worse as faulty instruments, data fudging and lack of regulation allow industries to pollute with impunity
Janaki Lenin: The case of ‘Putin’s tiger’ recently put poaching into the media spotlight. In India, a new modelling exercise is helping to tackle the crime by mapping areas where tigers are most at risk
Janaki Lenin
Conservation Action Trust challenges approval of Australia’s largest coal mine, whose coal would be burned in India
Oliver Milman
Former head of nuclear safety agency says new agreement will leave Canberra with no say over use of reprocessed plutonium
Michael Safi
Indian village to be relocated to create the most densely packed population of tigers in the world and stop them eating people
Lewis Smith
$100bn investment likely in five years but coal power plants will also expand rapidly to provide electricity to every Indian village
Damian Carrington in Delhi
Indian PM’s renewable energy ambitions are big and the country is home to Asia’s biggest solar farm in Gujarat, but coal use is still increasing
Damian Carrington
Alexander White: With Australian uranium in the reactors at Fukushima during the meltdown, is it moral to sell the asbestos of the 21st Century to India?
Alexander White
Janaki Lenin: The question at the heart of climate change and forest conservation issues is: who bears the cost?
Janaki Lenin