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Can cloud seeding really clean Delhi’s air? | Delhi air pollution | Delhi aqi

Every winter, Delhi turns into a gas chamber — and this year, the government’s pinning hopes on cloud seeding to wash the air clean.

Datanomics: Measuring India's cloud seeding scale and rainfall impact

A 2014 Beijing study found that a 1 mm increase in rainfall intensity reduced PM2.5 levels by 4-28 per cent, highlighting the potential of such interventions in improving air quality

Delhi seeds clouds to clear post-Diwali smog, but rain still elusive

Despite high levels of air pollution in the national capital, experts say artificial rain is both expensive and only temporary fix, and that cities must tackle primary sources

Watch: Cloud-seeding trial conducted in parts of Delhi | Artificial rain | Delhi air pollution | AQI

The Delhi government, in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, conducted the first cloud-seeding trial in parts of Delhi on Tuesday, with more such exercises planned over the next few days.

Amazon restores AWS cloud services after global outage hits businesses

It was at least the third time in five years that AWS's northern Virginia cluster, known as US-EAST-1, contributed to a major internet meltdown

AWS outage: Why Amazon's cloud failure broke top apps worldwide

Amazon Web Services faced a widespread outage that disrupted platforms including Perplexity AI, Pinterest, and Snapchat, highlighting the risks of global dependence on its cloud network

Airtel, IBM team up to offer enterprise-grade AI and hybrid cloud solutions

The partnership will allow Airtel Cloud customers to access IBM's AI and hybrid cloud offerings, targeting enterprises and regulated industries

India's digital growth at risk amid skill gap in AI, cloud & cybersecurity

A report by TeamLease warns of a 25-60% talent deficit in AI, cloud, and cybersecurity, with GenAI roles worst hit, risking India's $1.2 trillion digital economy ambitions

CloudMosa looks to the cloud to speed up 4G feature phone journey

CloudMosa sees its offering as a big opportunity to hasten the upgradation of consumers from 2G to 4G feature phones

Expect cloudy sky with one to two spells of rain for next few days: IMD

A generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain is likely in the national capital for the next few days, with the maximum temperature expected to settle around 32 degrees Celsius and the minimum to be around 24 degrees Celsius, the weather department said on Friday. The weather remained cloudy during Independence Day celebrations on Friday in Delhi, with the maximum temperature settling at 30.1 degrees Celsius,? 3.7 notches below normal. Clouds partially covered the city, throughout the day, with light drizzle, with the minimum temperature settling at 24.2 degrees Celsius, 2.3 notches below normal, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The city's primary weather station recorded 0.5 mm of rainfall, from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm on Friday, while other stations reported higher amounts. According to IMD data, Ridge logged 14 mm of rain, while Aya Nagar recorded 3.2 mm. In the past 24 hours till 8:30 am on Friday, Safdarjung, the city's primary weather station, recorded 80.4

From kitchen to Cloud: How Ajay Vij is steering Accenture's India engine

Lunch with BS: Ajay Vij, Senior Country Managing Director, Accenture India

Rising cloud costs, security push some firms back to on-premise infra

The shift, called cloud repatriation, involves moving applications, data, and workloads from a public cloud environment back to on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, or other hosting environment

HCLTech partners with E.ON to create private cloud infrastructure

HCLTech will create a private cloud platform for E.ON and manage its cloud and network infrastructure across global hyperscalers

Paytm Cloud incorporates Paytm Singapore as wholly-owned subsidiary

Earlier this year, PCTL acquired a 25 per cent stake in Brazil-based embedded finance firm Seven Technology for $1 million

Delhi to conduct cloud-seeding trials with each flight lasting for 1.5 hrs

Delhi will conduct five cloud-seeding trials, each on a separate day, with flights operating for about one to one-and-a-half hours for injecting chemicals into clouds, an official said on Monday. They said the trials could be conducted in quick succession, possibly within a week, depending on weather conditions. "If suitable weather is observed, we may conduct all five trials within a week or with gaps of a day or two. The schedule will depend on cloud availability," they said. Cloud-seeding, also known as artificial rain, is a technique to induce rainfall by dispersing specific substances into clouds, which eventually leads to rain if other weather conditions are favourable. An official from the Environment Department, who requested anonymity, told PTI that the locations for the trials have not been finalised yet. IIT Kanpur, which is leading the experiment from planning to execution, will select the sites based on various scientific and logistical factors. He added that the tria

Locking customers to our Cloud was not fair: Oracle's Mahesh Thiagarajan

Thiagarajan talks about the Indian market, Cloud adoption, generative AI (GenAI), and the importance of India

Amazon Cloud needs to deliver after Microsoft, Alphabet miss estimates

Wall Street expects Amazon to have spent about $76 billion on capex in 2024, up from $53 billion the prior year. That's seen swelling to $86 billion in fiscal 2025

Paytm Cloud to acquire 25% stake in Brazil's Seven Technology for $1 mn

Following the completion of the transaction, Seven Technology and Dinnie will become associate entities of One97 Communications (OCL), the parent company of Paytm

Cloud, GCCs key growth drivers of India's digital economy: Govt report

The cloud market and global capability centres (GCC) are among the fast-growing segments of India's digital economy which is expected to drive a fifth of national GDP by 2030, a report by MEITy has said. The report, prepared by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy), said India's digital economy was equivalent to Rs 31.64 lakh crore in GDP in 2022-23. While the traditional ICT (Information and Communications Technology) sector remains the largest component of the digital economy, digital platforms and the digitalisation of brick-and-mortar sectors are growing rapidly, the report pointed out. The country's cloud market, which accounted for 1.1-1.2 per cent of the global market in 2020-23, and GCCs (global capability centres) were named some of the fastest-growing segments of the digital economy. "India's digital economy is expected to grow almost twice as fast as the overall ...

Microsoft to invest $3 bn in AI and cloud expansion in India: Nadella

The tech giant will also support the country's long-term competitiveness by training 10 million people over the next five years with AI skills