NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's monsoon rainfall was 43 percent below average in June, the weather office said on Monday.
Rains were 34 percent above average a year earlier, as the monsoon arrived on the normal date of June 1 and covered half the country by mid-June, two days ahead of the usual date.
The gap in monsoon rains shrank for the week ended June 25, recovering a little after a poor start.
(Reporting by Ratnajyoti Dutta; Editing by Sunil Nair)