GST: Finance Ministry revamps Groups of Ministers
The Hindu
Ajit Pawar to study IT-related issues
The Finance Ministry has modified the composition of ministerial groups studying pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) issues. Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar has been appointed as the convenor of the Group of Ministers (GoM) tasked with monitoring and resolving IT-related challenges for GST, replacing former Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi. Mr. Modi’s successor in the Bihar government Tarkishore Prasad has also been included in the GoM, while former Haryana Minister Captain Abhimanyu has been replaced by the State’s Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala. Mr. Pawar replaced former Maharashtra FM Sudhir Mungantiwar, while Assam’s Former FM and CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has been replaced by his FM Ajanta Neog.“Spider wasp,” says ecologist and nature educator Vena Kapoor, narrating the fascinating but macabre tale of the spider wasp and its victims. While adult spider wasps mostly feed on flower nectar, making them excellent pollinators, they are also what are known as “parasitoids.” Unlike parasites, they kill their host. In the case of spider wasps, females hunt down spiders, inject them with venom and lay eggs on them. Once they hatch, the larvae eat these spiders alive, inevitably killing them, she tells the huddle of women cloistered around this tree.
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