New Delhi: As people in Delhi and its adjoining areas struggle to breathe, as they do every year during this time, environmentalists and citizens are left wondering why the government’s three cloud seeding attempts has failed to induce artificial rain thus far.

As a thick smog settles over Delhi-NCR once again, more than a week after Diwali, former All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr Randeep Guleria has called air pollution “a silent killer” that is slowly claiming lives not only in the Capital but across the country.

Dr Guleria pointed out the deep and lasting effects of polluted air, saying that the crisis is no longer confined to respiratory disease, it is attacking the entire body, reported India Today.

“Air pollution, especially fine particulate matter like

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