Battered by severe air pollution following Diwali celebrations, Delhi may witness its first artificial rain over the next three days as a Cessna aircraft departed for a cloud seeding “mission" on Thursday.

A day after Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said there were no suitable clouds for the much-awaited artificial rain experiment aimed at clearing the toxic smog around Delhi-NCR in the winter, it now looks like there is a window open for the trial after all. He said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had informed the government that there is no window expected until October 25.

According to exclusive information available with News18 , the Cessna aircraft has departed for the cloud seeding operations from Kanpur to Meerut. If the conditions develop in a s

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