Bangladesh calm a day after top court scrapped some job quotas

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Bangladesh appeared calm on Monday (June 22) amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms prevailed a day after the Supreme Court scrapped some quotas for government jobs that sparked protests this month that killed scores.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Bangladesh appeared calm on Monday amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms

00:08prevailed a day after the Supreme Court scrapped some quotas for government jobs that sparked

00:13protests this month that killed scores.

00:19Clashes between protesters and security forces killed at least 139 people across the South

00:27Asian nation after the High Court last month reinstated job reservations removed by Prime

00:34Minister Sheikh Hasina's government in 2018.

00:37However, on Sunday, the Supreme Court ordered that 93 percent of government jobs should

00:43be allocated on the basis of merit, against earlier quotas of 56 percent for groups such

00:50as families of freedom fighters, women and people from underdeveloped areas.

00:55There were no reports of violence or protests on Monday morning, and media said curfew would

01:00be relaxed for three hours in the afternoon, extended from two hours the previous day,

01:05so that people could buy essentials.

01:08Student protesters have said they plan to continue demonstrations, however, until the

01:12release of detained protest leaders, and have demanded the government lift the curfew and

01:18reopen universities shut since Wednesday.

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