Bangladesh partially restores telecom services as protests taper off

Bangladesh partially restored telecommunication services on Wednesday although internet connection was slow and social media remained suspended, days after deadly protests against reservations for government jobs killed almost 150 people.

The country has mostly been calm since Sunday when the Supreme Court scaled down reservations for various categories to 7 per cent, overruling a high court verdict reinstating a 56 per cent quota in government jobs that had been scrapped in 2018.