Morning Digest: Mamata warns against counting irregularities in Bhabanipur EVM strong room; Italy told to avoid sharing of defence tech with Pakistan, and more

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee aboriginal connected Friday (May 1, 2026) warned against immoderate effort to tamper with the counting process, hours aft she visited an EVM beardown country successful Bhabanipur, alleging imaginable malpractice. Ms. Banerjee, who emerged astir 12:07 a.m. aft spending astir 4 hours astatine the counting centre for her Bhabanipur constituency housed successful Sakhawat Memorial School successful southbound Kolkata, said lone 1 idiosyncratic would beryllium allowed wrong the designated counting area.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto at the Manekshaw Centre connected Thursday (April 30, 2026), urging Italy to refrain from sharing delicate defence technologies with Pakistan.