Dhaka, Oct. 15 -- Teachers and employees under the MPO scheme, who had been staging demonstrations for a fourth straight day demanding a 20 percent housing allowance in their salaries, have left Shahbagh intersection after blocking it for nearly three hours.

Around 2pm on Wednesday, protesters occupied the key intersection, halting traffic in all directions. By 5pm, they withdrew and marched back to Central Shaheed Minar to resume their sit-in protests.

Delwar Hossain Azizi, member secretary of the alliance MPO Nationalisation Expectant Alliance -- the coalition leading the movement -- announced that they would march toward the chief advisor's residence and the State Guest House Jamuna on Thursday.

He said the next course of action wou...