Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has cancelled most government job quotas following bloody clashes between students and police in the capital, Dhaka.

Bloomberg reported that local television stations announced the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel most of the job quotas on Sunday.

The Bangladeshi military said the government had imposed a nationwide curfew and deployed military forces after student protests escalated. More than 100 people have been killed since the violence began on Tuesday.

The protests escalated after a court decision last month to reinstate a job quota policy that set aside 30 per cent of jobs for families of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence.