A surge in gold imports that widened India’s trade deficit to a record last month and pushed the rupee to an all-time low was due to an error in calculation, according to people with knowledge of the matter.Officials double-counted gold shipments in warehouses following a change in methodology in July, the people said, asking not to be identified ahead of …
New Delhi: The government has proposed including e-commerce data to prepare a new base year to measure retail inflation, as part of a broader initiative to better reflect contemporary consumer spending patterns. The proposed revisions to the Consumer Price Index include leveraging modern data collection techniques such as sourcing price information from e-commerce platforms, expanding coverage beyond the major cities, …
