Anti-job quota supporters clash with police and Awami League supporters in the Rampura area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 18, 2024. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/REUTERS ...

What's happening? Prime minister flees after nearly 100 killed in Sunday protests - Weeks of demonstrations and unrest have ...

Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with clashes between students, pro-government supporters and armed police fueling widespread anger over civil service job ...

In 2018, amid protests by job-seeking students, the government scrapped all quota facilities for first-class and second-class government jobs, beginning with the 40th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) ...

Chart: Present quota system in Bangladesh civil bureaucracy The present quota system has been alleged to deprive many meritorious students from getting jobs in the Bangladesh public service ...

The figure is 18 percent of the total government jobs. Of the vacancies, 39,564 are grade-I posts, 30,422 grade-II, 163,417 are grade-III and 69,501 are grade-IV posts.

The Sydney-based businessman Clayton Wright (66) claimed that despite spending top dollar (about AUS $1,100) on advertising ...