Bangladesh SC scales back job quota after unrest

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for govt job applicants, a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and demonstrators that have killed scores of people.

Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30% of govt jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. The govt previously halted it in 2018 following mass student protests, but in…