Cloud seeding: What it means and how the process works

Here is an explainer on the technique that artificially modifies a cloud so that it produces more rainfall as Delhi saw its first cloud-seeding trial on Tuesday, in an attempt to address air......

Indian Scientists Make Weather History

'Nobody asked us to work on this. It was on our own that we decided to embark on this journey.' IMAGE: A rickshaw puller wades through a waterlogged road after heavy rains lashed Guwahati, May 31,......

Delhi gears up for first artificial rain through cloud seeding

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday said the city is set to witness its first-ever artificial rain through cloud seeding as preparations for the ambitious pollution-control initiative have......

SEE: Delhi's cloud seeding experiments bring no rainfall

After a gap of 53 years, Delhi conducted cloud seeding trials on Tuesday to induce artificial rain in the national capital amid surging pollution levels, even as the weather department did not......

Cloud seeding: BMC to rope in Israel firm

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation would rope in Israel's national water company, Mekorot, to carry out cloud seeding operations in the areas where major water reservoirs of the city are......

Poor monsoon due to El Nino winds from Pacific

When the World Metereological Organisation warned our weather experts in June that a poor monsoon was coming , and also told them why, the latter wouldn't agree. Now they do. In June, WMO had......

Top 10 supercomputers, China beats US

Beating the United States, China has made a giant leap in the field of supercomputers. However, India has no supercomputers in the top 10 list. Two supercomputers from India feature among the top......

Rainfall last week best so far this year: Met office

Rainfall in the week ended August 29 was about six per cent more than normal and the best weekly rains in the southwest monsoon season this year. This helped ease concern on drought across several......