# Bhima-koregaon case

• Tribal rights activist and a maoist sympathiser father Stan swamy died on monday in a hospital.

• Father Stan swamy was an accused in the Bhima-koregaon caste violence case.

• His bail application was pending before the Bombay high court.

# Section 66A of IT act

• The supreme court on monday found it “distressing”, “shocking” and “terrible” that people were still booked and tried under section 66A of the IT act even six years after it struck down the provision as unconstitutional and a violation of free speech.

• Section 66A had prescribed three years imprisonment if a social media message caused “annoyance” or was found “grossly offensive”.

• The supreme court, in the shreya singhal judgement in march 2015, had concluded that the provision was vague and worded arbitrarily.

# Union cabinet expansion

• The long anticipated reshuffle and expansion of the union cabinet is likely to take place this week.

• The expansion is likely to fill 24 slots and multiple ministries held by single ministers to be decoupled.

• States going to polls such as UP and uttarakhand will get preferences in cabinet berth.

# Afghanistan war

• More than 1000 Afghan troops fled into neighbouring Tajikistan on monday following clashes with the taliban.

• The exodus of troops followed another weekend of fighting across much of the northern countryside.

• The afghan forces is mulling a strategy to launch a counter strike on Taliban in north of the country.

# Rise in tea imports

• Tea imports jumped 139% in january-march this year compared with a year earlier.

• Tea exports in January-April this year came close to 58 million kg as against 61.13 million kg during the same period last year.