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, …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications. Officials said they have fixed the error and it …
