Student protesters handed the government an eight-point charter of demands with the foremost one asking for slashing the job quota to 5.0 per cent and ratifying that by an urgent act of parliament.
They also demand, among others, compensation for families of those killed and punishment to those who launched attacks and who ordered from government side.
Early reopening of the closed universities and dormitories and cleansing the campuses of "terrorist acts", and arranging student-union elections are also among the demands.
They paused and met three ministers as curfew came down on Friday night and the government called out army to restore order after prolonged protests erupted into bloodletting street rioting following opposition political parties' solidarity participation in the demonstrations.
"We have seen the demands, a logical solution is not difficult," Law Minister Anisul Haque told the media after the midnight meet with coordinators of the Student Movement against Disparity at a state guesthouse in Dhaka.
"We have come here to place our demands, not for discussion," said Sargis Alam, one of the coordinators of the protests that assumed an unprecedented scale apparently as longstanding political opposition agitations for fair polls fed into the flames.
The student platform called for wearing black badges and offering doa or prayers from their respective places on Saturday for the deceased.
Nearly a hundred people, including students and two journalists, are reported killed and several thousand injured in widespread clashes during the countrywide 'complete shutdown' at the culmination of quota protests.
An urgent apex-court hearing is set for today on the High Court verdict reinstating an aggregate 56-percent quota in government recruitment. Attorney General Amin Uddin indicated the court order could come forthwith on the day following the hearings, advanced from the earlier-set date of August 7.
The attorney general said the state counsel would seek cancellation of the HC verdict.
The full bench of the Appellate Division of Supreme Court will hear the case.
Law Minister Anisul Haque said on Saturday the demands of the quota movement protesters would be met through the court.
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