India News : Monsoon rains could ease next week over the main crop areas after heavy downpours in the first month of the June-September season, weather officials said, speeding up planting of summer crops. Rains were 4 per cent above average in the week that ended on July 3, data from the weather office showed on Thursday, reflecting a slowdown from torrential downpours early in the season that had caused fatal floods in many parts, mainly in northern India.
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