In an attempt to curb air pollution, the national capital Delhi saw its first cloud-seeding trial on Tuesday. The exercise, however, did not bring any showers, and the reason being attributed to this is low atmospheric moisture.

The trial was a part of the Delhi government's initiative to tackle the air pollution levels by inducing rain through artificial means.

Last week, a test flight was conducted over Burari, and small quantities of silver iodide and sodium chloride compounds were released from an aircraft to trigger artificial rain. But due to low atmospheric moisture, the test flight could not bring any rain.

Manindra Agarwal, the director of IIT Kanpur, said that the process of inducing artificial rain is an SOS solution to combat pollution levels. \"When you have a crisis situat

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