DOZENS were injured in Savar, near Dhaka, today as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and set about protesting crowds with truncheons.

The officers charged into clashes between a pro-government student body and other student protesters at Jahangir Naga University outside the Bangladeshi capital.

Protests are demanding an end to a quota system for Civil Service jobs that reserves 30 per cent for relatives of veterans of the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.