Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday denied reports that its key official and party chief’s son Tarique Rahman had met Indian fugitive militant Paresh Barua.

The wife of Sri Lankan ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka accused the government yesterday of abducting her husband and treating him “like an animal” following his dramatic arrest.

Almost two years after he was stripped of his crown and became a commoner, Nepal’s deposed king Gyanendra himself has broken a centuries-old taboo.