Stocks up at opening

DHAKA: Share prices at the country’s both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- witnessed up trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday.

US to open peace talks with Taliban

WASHINGTON: The United States and the Taliban cleared the decks for peace talks Tuesday even as a deadly attack on US troops underlined the still furious nature of their decade-long war.