Within an hour after a leader of students yesterday announced one month's suspension of their street agitation for quota reforms in the public service recruitment, another group defied it and vowed to continue their demonstration.

BNP terms justified the demand of demonstrating students and job-seekers for reform of the existing quota system in civil service.

The Ministry of Public Administration will scrutinise the existing quota system and inform the Prime Minister about it, says Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam.

Students in Rajshahi demanding reforms in the quota system in the civil service end their demonstration for the day.

The government has no plan to reform the existing quota system right now, says Senior Secretary of the Public Administration Ministry Md Mozammel Haque Khan.

At least 100 students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) sustain injuries as police go into action to disperse them while staging demonstrations on Dhaka-Aricha highway demanding reform of the existing quota system in government service.

Terming the attack on Dhaka University Vice Chancellor residence “pre-planned and politically motivated”, Dhaka University Teacher’s Association (Duta) demand proper investigation and quick trial of the perpetrators.

A section of students continues agitation in Dhaka rejecting the decision on postponement of quota reform demonstration.

A group of Chittagong University students stage a unique demonstration on the campus demanding reformation of the existing quota system in cadre service and other government jobs.

Students of different universities and colleges demonstrating against quota system bring out a procession on Dhaka University campus demanding withdrawal of the case filed against at least 700 demonstrators on March 14.

The High Court today upheld the quota system in government service, disposing a writ petition filed seeking cancellation of the system.