Bangladesh supreme court winds back job quotas that sparked unrest
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00:00Well, Bangladesh's Supreme Court has dismissed a lower court order on quotas in civil servant
00:06jobs, scaling back the controversial job quotas that had sparked deadly unrest.
00:13It also urged students to return to the classroom.
00:17At least 150 people have died this week in clashes between security forces and students.
00:23It remains to be seen if this latest ruling to scale back those quotas will quell the
00:29unrest.
00:30A third of highly sought-after public sector jobs in the country are reserved for relatives
00:35of veterans from the country's War for Independence from Pakistan in 1971.
00:40Bangladesh's Supreme Court is now scrapping most of the job quotas that existed in the
00:47country.