Delhi’s ambitious attempt to manufacture rain through cloud-seeding has ended in disappointment, leaving both citizens and scientists under dry skies. The much-touted experiment, carried out jointly by the Delhi government and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur), aimed to provide temporary relief from the capital’s suffocating smog. But despite multiple flights, extensive planning, and several crores of taxpayer money, not a drop of meaningful rainfall fell over the city.

Officials had hoped that artificial showers would wash away pollutants and offer a brief respite to residents battling record-high pollution levels. Instead, the outcome has exposed the limits of weather modification — and raised tough questions about policy priorities, cost effectiveness, and scientif

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