India's monsoon rains seen above average in 2016: weather office

By Mayank Bhardwaj and Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's crucial monsoon rains are expected to be above average in 2016, the weather office said on Tuesday, easing fears over farm and economic growth after two straight droughts hit rural incomes and agricultural output. Rains in 2016 would be 106 percent of the long-term average, Laxman Singh Rathore, chief of the India Meteorological Department, told a news conference. Rathore said the monsoon rains could be above average as El Ni