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Olga Urbina carries baby Ares Webster as demonstrators rally on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over US President Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, during a protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

What ending birthright citizenship could mean for Americans

For more than 100 years, the government has assumed that anyone born in the country is a US citizen

A prime example of Bhola’s potential is Sheltech Ceramics, a venture of the prominent Sheltech Group. Photo: TBS

Why Bhola could become Bangladesh's next industrial heartland

Employees work on an Airbus A220-300 at the Airbus facility in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada February 20, 2020/ Reuters

What is the Airbus ‘Icarus Bug’ and how are airlines fixing it?

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Why are UK universities restricting recruitment of Bangladeshi, Pakistani students?

A destroyed car lies near apartment buildings damaged by Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 28, 2025. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS

Why is fate of Donetsk region a sticking point in talks on ending war in Ukraine?

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How entrepreneurs can join Bangladesh's new investment matchmaking platform

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a concert before an informal dinner on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia October 22, 2024. Photo: Aleksey Nikolskyi/BRICS-RUSSIA2024.RU Host Photo Agency via REUTERS/File Photo

What's behind Putin's first visit to India since the Ukraine war?

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What is the punishment for animal abuse in Bangladesh?

This is the very Purbachal plot allocated to Sheikh Hasina and her family. It is located on Road 203 in Sector 27 of the Purbachal New Town Project, enclosed with red bricks. The photo was taken on Thursday (27 November). Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS

Why one 60-katha plot triggered 6 ACC cases against Sheikh family?

British MP Tulip Siddiq. Illustration: TBS

Tulip Siddiq: How the British MP became entangled in Purbachal plot scandal and got convicted

Army soldiers cry as they carry the coffin of a Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) officer in Dhaka on 2 March 2009. Tens of thousands of mourners attended the state funeral for dozens of Bangladesh army officers killed in a mutiny on 25-26 February 2009. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

What the investigation commission says caused the BDR mutiny

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Why drug prices in Bangladesh remain fixed even as production costs surge

A coast guard boat of the Venezuelan Navy operates off the Caribbean coast on the day Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says that his country would deploy military, police and civilian defenses at 284 "battlefront" locations across the country, amid heightened tensions with the US, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, September 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Hernandez/File Photo/File Photo

How could Venezuela's military respond to a US attack?