Cybercafes keep Khulna students away from classes
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Our Correspondent
KHULNA, Apr 13: Cybercafes have mushroomed in different areas in Khulna city, causing anxiety among the guardians, as their children are passing time at the cafés avoiding classes. The cafés are mostly situated at Nirala, Daulatpur, Khalishpur, Phulbari Gate, Bayra, New Market, Shantidham and Royal crossing, Ahsan Ahmed Road, South Central Road and Babu Khan Road and Shaheed Belal Sarak. A good number of school and college students pass their time at the cybercafés playing games and visiting websites, some guardians said, adding that even their children pass their school hours at the cafés. Abdus Salam, a resident of Roypara Cross Road, said he came to know that his cousin, a student of Class IX in St. Joseph School, was absent from school. 'Later I found him playing games on computer at a cybercafé on Ahsan Ahmed Road,' he said. Mahbub Mehedi, a resident of Khalishpur area who often goes to the cafes for business purposes, told FE that many children are visiting the cafés and misusing internet. Some cybercafé owners said they had started doing their business after taking trade licences from the city corporation. They offer computer games and opportunity for browsing, website visiting and e-mailing at their cafés at the rate between Tk. 15 and Tk. 20 per hour on contract basis. Shamshed Mollah Shabuj, manager of Sabuj Cybercafé on Babu Khan Road, said a large number of school and college students come to their café during school and college hours but he does not allow them. 'There should be strict rules and regulations for operating cybercafés at any place in the city,' he said. Dacoits loot valuables A dacoity was committed at village Rajapur under Sharonkhola Upazila of Bagerhat district Tuesday night. A gang of dacoits numbering about 10-12 entered into the house forcibly and held the inmates hostage at gunpoint and looted valuable goods ornaments and cash worth about Tk. 1 million. Six persons were injured in the attack of dacoits. They were admitted to Sharonkhola Health Complex Police said that daughter of Jahangir who lives abroad and returned home 15 days ago. Her hard cash and gold ornaments worth about Tk. 1 million were in the house. On hearing hue and cry the local people rushed to the spot and caught one of the dacoits. Body recoverd Batiaghata police recovered a decomposed female body from Kazibacha river near Birat ferry ghat area Tuesday noon. The body was identified as Salma Jesmin Lipi (45), wife of a retired judge S.M. Abdur Rauf. Police and family sources said Lipi came out early morning on April 11 from his brother's residence for morning walk as usual. She did not return home until evening. Her brother field a GD with Sonadanga police station in this connection. Salma Jesmin Lipi divorced her husband, retired judge S.M. Abdur Rauf, over family feud in the mid-March and returned to Khulna from Dhaka. She also tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills three months ago.
KHULNA, Apr 13: Cybercafes have mushroomed in different areas in Khulna city, causing anxiety among the guardians, as their children are passing time at the cafés avoiding classes. The cafés are mostly situated at Nirala, Daulatpur, Khalishpur, Phulbari Gate, Bayra, New Market, Shantidham and Royal crossing, Ahsan Ahmed Road, South Central Road and Babu Khan Road and Shaheed Belal Sarak. A good number of school and college students pass their time at the cybercafés playing games and visiting websites, some guardians said, adding that even their children pass their school hours at the cafés. Abdus Salam, a resident of Roypara Cross Road, said he came to know that his cousin, a student of Class IX in St. Joseph School, was absent from school. 'Later I found him playing games on computer at a cybercafé on Ahsan Ahmed Road,' he said. Mahbub Mehedi, a resident of Khalishpur area who often goes to the cafes for business purposes, told FE that many children are visiting the cafés and misusing internet. Some cybercafé owners said they had started doing their business after taking trade licences from the city corporation. They offer computer games and opportunity for browsing, website visiting and e-mailing at their cafés at the rate between Tk. 15 and Tk. 20 per hour on contract basis. Shamshed Mollah Shabuj, manager of Sabuj Cybercafé on Babu Khan Road, said a large number of school and college students come to their café during school and college hours but he does not allow them. 'There should be strict rules and regulations for operating cybercafés at any place in the city,' he said. Dacoits loot valuables A dacoity was committed at village Rajapur under Sharonkhola Upazila of Bagerhat district Tuesday night. A gang of dacoits numbering about 10-12 entered into the house forcibly and held the inmates hostage at gunpoint and looted valuable goods ornaments and cash worth about Tk. 1 million. Six persons were injured in the attack of dacoits. They were admitted to Sharonkhola Health Complex Police said that daughter of Jahangir who lives abroad and returned home 15 days ago. Her hard cash and gold ornaments worth about Tk. 1 million were in the house. On hearing hue and cry the local people rushed to the spot and caught one of the dacoits. Body recoverd Batiaghata police recovered a decomposed female body from Kazibacha river near Birat ferry ghat area Tuesday noon. The body was identified as Salma Jesmin Lipi (45), wife of a retired judge S.M. Abdur Rauf. Police and family sources said Lipi came out early morning on April 11 from his brother's residence for morning walk as usual. She did not return home until evening. Her brother field a GD with Sonadanga police station in this connection. Salma Jesmin Lipi divorced her husband, retired judge S.M. Abdur Rauf, over family feud in the mid-March and returned to Khulna from Dhaka. She also tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills three months ago.