A Cessna aircraft took off from Meerut Airport for Delhi and released cloud seeding flares in different areas. (@mssirsa/X via PTI Photo) Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed

For the first time in more than 50 years, cloud seeding trials were conducted in New Delhi to improve the city's air quality through artificial rain.

The weather department, however, recorded no traces of rainfall in the national capital, with the skies remaining dry. Among the neighbouring regions, minor precipitation in Noida (0.1 mm of rainfall) and Greater Noida (0.2 mm) was recorded, according to a report released by the Delhi government.

The report also claimed that the seeding trials helped in reduction of particulate matter at locations where the exercise was carried out even as c

See Full Page