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Bangladesh’s top court scaled back a controversial job-quota system in a partial victory for student protesters after a week of deadly demonstrations. Student leaders pledged to keep the protests going until all those detained are freed and the officials who ordered the deadly crackdown resign, with calls for a nationwide shutdown on Monday. Soldiers are patrolling cities across Bangladesh with an indefinite curfew imposed and a communications blackout drastically restricting the flow of information to the outside world. The death toll from a week of violent unrest remains unclear, with news reports suggesting more than 100 people have been killed – the vast majority of them demonstrators. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina condemned opposition politicians for “creating anarchy”, with at least 70 arrests made among the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.