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Bangladesh’s top court lowers government jobs quota in response to deadly unrest

Bangladesh’s top court scales back government jobs quota after deadly unrest that has killed scores

Bangladesh's top court scales back government jobs quota after deadly unrest

New York Times

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Associated Press

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Bangladesh top court scraps most quotas that caused deadly unrest

Student violence in Bangladesh has killed scores of people

Guardian

Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests

Independent

Bangladesh’s top court scraps job quotas that sparked mass protests with 114 deaths

What is happening in Bangladesh and why are students protesting?

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs after student protests turned deadly and killed at least 151 people across the country in the past week.

Bloomberg

Nullifying a lower court's decision that had reinstated a 30% set aside of government jobs for descendants of freedom fighters who fought in the country's 1971 War of Independence, the top court ruled that only 5% of the roles can be reserved for veterans' kin.

In addition, the court directed that 93% of government jobs will be open to candidates on merit, while the remaining 2% will be reserved for people from ethnic minorities or with disabilities.

Following the ruling, student leaders gave Bangladesh's government 48 hours to meet their new demands before they would call off the protests, including an apology from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Reuters

The protesters, who called for a nationwide shutdown on Monday, have also demanded the resignation of Hasina's ministers, swift enforcement of the ruling, and the release of detained leaders.

Hasina — re-elected for the fourth successive term in January — is yet to respond to the ruling or the protesters' demands. Meanwhile, apart from intermittent clashes, a lull in the violence filled the streets of Dhaka on Monday.

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