BEIJING: Days before the opening ceremony, the Beijing Olympics seemed beset with problems, none potentially more worrisome than air quality. Pollution levels remained high, despite government edicts that had removed two million vehicles from the city's streets and had closed down factories.

But as of Sunday, halfway through the Olympics, the Games were operating smoothly and pollution levels have remained low, with previous days seeing either bright sunshine or clouds with sporadic showers.

Neha Sinha

New Delhi, August 13 Now, DPCC can search, confiscate material from illegal plastic manufacturing and recycling units in city

Giving its ruling on arguably the city's biggest choker and polluter, plastics, the Delhi High Court has given more teeth to the normally toothless Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).

A heavy, modern bicycle that promises easy mobility in the age of congestion, expensive fuel, and pollution has taken off brilliantly in Paris

By Steven Erlanger

PARIS: They're clunky, heavy and ugly, but they have become modish

Success of popular bike-sharing system spawns new idea

Green dreams: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe launches the Velib cycles in Paris in July 2007.

PARIS: Paris' ambitious Mayor has a new "green dream' after the spectacular success of his bike-sharing scheme launched a year ago: a version for electric cars.

Under Bertrand Delanoe's environmentally friendly plan, a driver could pick up a car, say, on the Left Bank, snake up the slopes of Montmartre, then drop it off

Suggests steps to curb pollution at MPT

VASCO, JULY 23

KOHIMA, July 21: The Phek Town Chakhesang Student Union conducted a mass social work under the theme

BHUBANESWAR: With increasing clamp down on sponge iron units over pollution issues, the manufacturers in Orissa have pleaded for a little more time for adoption of proper practices and infrastructure.

The sponge iron industry in the State is only eight years old and is making gradual improvement in putting in place mandated systems, practice and equipment for control of pollution, they said.