After the identification of COVID-19 on December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the pandemic spread throughout the world. Relatively, when Bangladesh identified the first three infected patients on March 6, 2020 (GradaWorld, 2020), the government closed all the commercial establishments. As the outbreak began taking terrible effects, the series of lockdowns and shutdowns of various establishments were taken systematically. This paved way to the closures of all academic institutions, which transitioned from face to face to a new modality of teaching and learning.
During the shutdowns of the academic institutions, the online platform became the emerging alternative for the delivery of educational services. Thus, most of the young students can enjoy easy access to internet facilities. Parents are easily buying devices for their children to join online classes. In the side line, these youngsters relentlessly use mobile phones most of the time resulting to mobile addiction, online gaming addiction as well as various types of cyber-crime. Relative to the previous studies’ findings that closure of educational institutions lead to students’ mental distress due, various bad habits and behaviours are being developed. Similarly, cyber bullying has taken its serious turn.

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