Bangladesh top court scraps most job quotas that triggered deadly protests

DHAKA (Reuters) -- Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked nationwide student protests that have killed at least 114 people in recent days.

Dismissing a lower court order, the Supreme Court's Appellate Division directed that 93% of government jobs in the South Asian country should be open to candidates on merit, Bangladesh Attorney General A.M. Amin Uddin told Reuters.