India, Oct. 29 -- A costly attempt to get Delhi to receive artificial rain remained unsuccessful on Tuesday, while more experiments were in the pipeline, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government said after carrying out a cloud-seeding trial over smog-choked city amid 'very poor' air quality.

The attempt to induce artificial rain over Delhi is said to have costed over Rs.1 crore.

A small, single-propeller aircraft operated by IIT Kanpur hovered over northwest Delhi and parts of the National Capital Region on Tuesday, firing silver iodide flares in two cloud seeding trials that failed to produce rain - an attempt that Delhi's environment minister still called "successful". Follow weather live updates

The Delhi Cabinet approved the...