India, Oct. 28 -- The Delhi government conducted two cloud seeding trials on Tuesday to induce artificial rain in the capital as part of measures to curb deteriorating pollution levels.

However, the two sorties from Kanpur and Meerut failed to induce rain as of Tuesday evening.

Manindra Agrawal, Director of IIT Kanpur, said the trials were "not completely successful" as the flares fired from the aircraft failed to produce any rain.

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"We did two sorties, one in the afternoon and one slightly later in the evening. A total of, I believe, 14 flares were fired...These were fired, and the aircraft returned to Meerut. There hasn't been any rains so far. So, in that sense, it is not completely suc...