Delhi's cloud seeding trials on Tuesday yielded no significant rainfall in the city, though neighboring areas reported negligible precipitation. IIT Kanpur, executing the project, noted low cloud ...

The Delhi government is likely to conduct its first cloud seeding trial on Tuesday, provided weather conditions are favourable, an official said. Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa told ...

Delhi has initiated its first cloud-seeding trials, deploying aircraft from Kanpur to release compounds like silver iodide over areas including Burari and Karol Bagh. This initiative aims to combat ...

Cloud Seeding: Cloud seeding is considered to be an artificial phenomenon wherein artificial precipitation is created by infusing some chemicals into the air which acts as cloud condensation nuclei.

Cloud seeding over Delhi for the whole winter would cost around Rs 25 crore, says IIT Kanpur director Two cloud seeding sorties over Delhi did not produce rain due to low cloud moisture IIT Kanpur ...

Attempts to induce rain through cloud seeding in parts of Delhi on Tuesday were "not completely successful" because the moisture content in the clouds was low and the process is not a magic bullet for ...

The cloud seeding trials were conducted in the national capital using a Cessna aircraft fitted with salt-based and silver iodide flares to induce rain. The Delhi government conducted two cloud seeding ...

The air quality in Delhi remained in the poor category on Wednesday, with a thick layer of smog continuing to envelope the city and the adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) after the cloud seeding ...

Despite inputs from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) that clouds on October 28 in Delhi would be insufficient to coax artificial rain, researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology ...

NEW DELHI: Delhi on Tuesday carried out its first-ever cloud seeding trial in a bid to trigger artificial rain and bring temporary relief from the city’s toxic post-Diwali smog. The experiment, ...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) questioned the Delhi government's recent cloud seeding exercise, saying no rainfall was recorded despite claims of artificial rain and raising ...

Manindra Agarwal, director of IIT Kanpur, says the possibility of triggering rain with such low atmospheric moisture was not very high ...