New AMD CPUs: Midrange Speed, Low Power Draw
July 31, 2008
AMD’s latest Phenom CPUs are fast, but not the fastest chips around. That distinction falls to Intel’s Core series of CPUs, which are 5 to 10 percent speedier, clock cycle for clock cycle. Still, the new units–the Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, the Phenom X4 9350e, and the Phenom X4 9150e processors–cost less than Intel’s most recent chips.
The high-end Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition (CPU only) compares well, price-wise, with Intel’s quad-cores, especially the newer 45-nanometer-process Q9550, Q9450, and Q9300. For example, the Q9550 costs about $550, whereas the Phenom X4 9950, which uses a 65-nanometer process, costs about $235.
Performance-wise, though, it’s more comparable to Intel’s 65-nm Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Core 2 Quad Q6700. The 65-nm Phenom X4 9950 provides a 4 percent speed increase (2.6 GHz, up from 2.5 GHz) over the previous flagship product, the 9850. The Black Edition CPUs, like Intel’s Extreme models, allow you to increase the clock multiplier. Most CPUs are locked at a fixed multiple of the frontside bus–for instance, 12X with a 200-MHz bus, or 2.4 GHz. The Phenom X4 9850 will now be available only in a cheaper, locked version.
All three new AMD chips use what the company refers to as B3 silicon, with a slight revision of AMD’s original Opteron/Phenom design that eliminates a potential problem that reportedly could lock the CPU under a heavy virtualization load. AMD claims there were no reports of the problem ever occurring in a desktop PC; but as soon as the problem was reported, motherboard vendors implemented an optional BIOS fix at AMD’s behest. (See “First Tests: AMD’s Phenom CPU Won’t Scare Intel” for additional information on the bug.)
A Green CPU?
AMD may have found a nice space for itself in the mainstream with its new low-power-consumption, 65-watt TDP (Thermal Design Power) quad-core Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e. The 9150e is slightly slower and cheaper than the 9350e–1.8 GHz to 2.0 GHz, and $175 to $195.
Intel’s Core 2 Duo CPUs are also rated at 65 watts TDP, but its quad-cores are rated at 95 watts and 105 watts. However, Intel’s quad-core processors also run at clock speeds significantly higher than AMD’s 9350e and 9150e do, so the difference in performance per watt probably isn’t as significant as it might seem.
We put the Phenom X4 9950 and 9350e through their paces with a recently completed beta version of WorldBench 6 that tests power consumption as well as real-world performance. On a test bed with 2GB of 1066-MHz DDR2 memory, an nVidia 8800GTS graphics board, an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard, and two 250GB Western Digital WD2500AAJS hard drives in a striped RAID 0 configuration, the Phenom X4 9950 turned in a score of 104. That compares well with the mark of 108 for Gateway’s GM5632E and the score of 97 for Commodore Gaming’s CGX, both of which used Intel’s 2.4-GHz Q6600.
On the other hand, it fell well short of the average of 118.5 scored by the six PCs we’ve tested that use the 2.66-GHz Intel Q6700. The test PC with the 9950 also ran more slowly than the Dell XPS 420 we tested with a 2.83-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550; that system earned a WorldBench 6 score of 122.
For the low-power 9350e test bed, we used 2GB of 800-MHz DDR2 memory and the same striped array, with a much less expensive Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. Though the Gigabyte board features integrated ATI HD3200 graphics, it also has a PCI Express x16 slot, so we used the same nVidia 8800GTS discrete graphics board for a better comparison between the two AMD CPUs. For a 2-GHz system, the Phenom X4 9350e’s WorldBench 6 score of 87 was quite good.
The Phenom CPUs’ power numbers fell largely as expected. The 9950 setup drew 227 watts under load over a 5-minute span, 3 watts while off, 7 watts in sleep mode, and 209 watts when fully awake but idle. Meanwhile, the 9350e setup drew only 162 watts under load, 1.6 watts when off, 3 watts asleep, and 147 watts at idle.
We used a rather beefy, 750-watt Corsair TX750W power supply for both setups, which exceeded the 9350e’s requirements by a large margin. You should see lower power numbers for that setup with a lower-wattage power supply.
If you use programs that take advantage of multiple processor cores, or if you often run many apps at once, you can buy four cores and gulp less juice with AMD’s new e-series Phenoms.
Source: PC World
Celebration of 400 years of Dhaka begins with a call to revive its past glory
July 31, 2008
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The two-year long programme in celebration of 400 years of Dhaka was launched in the capital on Wednesday aiming to revive the past glory of the historic capital and restore its beauty.
The programme ‘Dhaka Amar Dhaka’ began with a rally of children at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre at Agargaon.
Some 600 children took part in the event in the morning singing the national anthem. They also released pigeons and balloons amid traditional drum beating.
An elderly citizen of the city Rabeya Khatun, of Rokonpur at Pathan mahalla in Old Town of Dhaka, and of a shared Mughal-Pathan heredity, inaugurated the festival.
Expressing her delights in joining the celebration of 400 years of Dhaka, 93-year-old Rabeya urged the young generation of the city to ‘love Dhaka, save Dhaka’.
The Citizens’ Committee
to Celebrate 400 Years of
Dhaka is organising the two-year long programme in the capital with the theme ‘Buriganga is the heart of Dhaka; we will save it’.
The president of the committee, Kabir Chowdhury, said the aim of this festival is to recall the glorious past of the city as well as revive its history and tradition.
‘We want to save the ‘heart’ of the city Buriganga and restore its old beauty’, said Kabir.
He said Dhaka’s turning into 400 as a capital is a matter of pride for this generation.
Human rights activist Sultana Kamal said the River Buriganga was the glory for flourishing Dhaka as the capital and business centre.
She said the people are now more inclined to looking forward without keeping an eye on the past which is harmful to the history and tradition.
‘This is a crucial stage for the capital, and we now have to think about the past, present and future of Dhaka’, she said.
Children also took part in an art competition on ‘My dreams of Dhaka’ at the inaugural ceremony.
The second part of the day’s programme began at 6:00pm. Flying fanush (lightened balloon), performances of traditional music, kawali, kashida, and chutki were the major attractions.
Some elderly citizens were also awarded at the function.
As part of the celebration, various types of cultural shows, including month-long jatra, drama and film festivals, painting, photography and traditional dress exhibitions, musical performances, book fair, food festival, and light and sound show will be arranged throughout the next two years.
The organisers would also arrange national and international seminars on history, tradition and present problems of the capital and their solution, cultural, sports and debate competitions, boat and cycle races, kite flying and other traditional events in the next two years.
The convener of the festival, Sagar Lohani, said they would arrange some events in almost every month under the programme ‘Dhaka Amar Dhaka’.
A carnival where hundreds of people are expected to exhibit the history and culture of this oldest city through different performances would be held in November this year, he said.
Educationist Zillur Rahman Siddiqi, journalist Kamal Lohani, artist Hasem Khan, Q Sajjad A Chowdhury, among others, were present at the inauguration.
Source: New Age
Bangladesh growing in size by 12.5 sq miles a year
July 31, 2008
Bangladesh is increasing in size contradicting forecasts that the parts of the country will disappear under water due to global warming.
Scientists at the Centre for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) say that the country’s landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (12.5 square miles) annually.
They said that they have studied 32 years of satellite images and found that the country’s landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres annually during that time.
Data shows that the sediment travelling down the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers from the Himalayan watershed are creating new land as they wash into the Bay of Bengal, they said.
Mominul Haque Sarker, Head of the department at the CEGIS that looks at boundary changes, said a billion tonnes of sediment that the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and 200 other rivers bring from the Himalayas each year before crossing Bangladesh had caused the landmass to increase.
About a third of this sediment, he said, makes it into the Bay of Bengal, where new territory is forming, he said.
Sarkar said that in the next 50 years this could add up to the country gaining 1,000 square kilometres.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that Bangladesh, criss-crossed by a network of more than 200 rivers, will lose 17 per cent of its land by 2050 because of rising sea levels due to global warming.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning panel says 20 million Bangladeshis will become environmental refugees by 2050 and the country will lose some 30 percent of its food production.
Director of the US-based NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, professor James Hansen, paints an even grimmer picture, predicting the entire country could be under water by the end of the century.
But Sarker said that while rising sea levels and river erosion were both claiming land in Bangladesh, many climate experts had failed to take into account new land being formed from the river sediment.
“Satellite images dating back to 1973 and old maps earlier than that show some 1,000 square kilometres of land have risen from the sea,” Sarker said.
“A rise in sea level will offset this and slow the gains made by new territories, but there will still be an increase in land. We think that in the next 50 years we may get another 1,000 square kilometres of land.”
Mahfuzur Rahman, Head of Bangladesh Water Development Board’s Coastal Study and Survey Department, has also been analysing the buildup of land on the coast.
He said findings by the IPCC and other climate change scientists were too general and did not explore the benefits of land accretion.
“For almost a decade we have heard experts saying Bangladesh will be under water, but so far our data has shown nothing like this,” he said.
“Natural accretion has been going on here for hundreds of years along the estuaries and all our models show it will go on for decades or centuries into the future.”
Dams built along the country’s southern coast in the 1950s and 1960s had helped reclaim a lot of land and he believed with the use of new technology, Bangladesh could speed up the accretion process, he said.
“The land Bangladesh has lost so far has been caused by river erosion, which has always happened in this country. Natural accretion due to sedimentation and dams have more than compensated this loss,” Rahman said.
Bangladesh has built a series of dykes to prevent flooding.
“If we build more dams using superior technology, we may be able to reclaim 4,000 to 5,000 square kilometres in the near future,” Rahman said.
Source: The New Nation
AL leader Obaidul Kader falls ill in court
July 31, 2008
Awami League joint general secretary Obaidul Kader fell ill Thursday during a court hearing of a bribery case, his lawyer said. The former state minister was taken to the Special Judge’s Court-10 from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital around 10am, Kader’s lawyer Kazi Mohammad Nazibullah Hiru told bdnews24.com.
Hiru said his client lost consciousness after he began vomiting in court and was laid down on the floor. Kader was sent back to BSMMU Hospital on the order of the judge, the lawyer said.
Judge Md Sirajul Islam set Aug 4 for the next hearing as judge AKM Arifur Rahman of the Special Court-10 was not present on Thursday. AL legal affairs secretary, advocate Sahara Khatun told bdnews24.com that Kader, who had been sick for a long time, was being “dragged to court everyday”.
“It is very unfortunate,” Sahara said.
“He told me that his right side was becoming paralysed, but he had not been given any treatment for the past one week,” she added. Sahara requested authorities to make proper arrangements for the AL leader. Kader has been carrying 41 pieces of shrapnel in his body since the August 21, 2004, grenade attack on an Awami League rally, Hiru said.
“Apart from that he recently underwent surgery.”
Kader’s mother applied to the chief adviser on July 2 to free her son on parole for proper medical treatment, but no step had been taken yet, the lawyer said.
Source: bdnews24
Secondhand smoke raises spouse’s stroke risk: study
July 31, 2008
Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a US study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke. Being married to a smoker raised the stroke risk by 42 percent in people who have never smoked compared to those married to someone who never smoked, the researchers said.
This jumped to 72 percent for former smokers married to a current smoker, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Former smokers who were married to smokers had a stroke risk similar to people who themselves were smokers. “Quitting smoking helps your own health and also the health of the people living with you,” Maria Glymour of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Columbia University in New York, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.
The study involved 16,225 people aged 50 and up who had never had a stroke. They were followed for an average of nine years. Glymour said there is accumulating evidence about the number of health problems linked to secondhand smoke. Previous research had suggested that secondhand smoke increases the risk of stroke, but Glymour said stroke risk has been studied more extensively in smokers than in people exposed to secondhand smoke.
People who breathe in secondhand smoke also have a higher risk of lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, respiratory tract infections and heart disease, among other conditions. A 2006 US surgeon general’s report said secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or cancer-causing. These include formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide. For this study, smoking involved cigarettes and not pipes or cigars. It looked at health consequences for the spouses of smokers, but not at the long-term stroke risk in children of smokers due to secondhand smoke.
“We know that there are a lot of undesirable health consequences for kids, especially asthma and breathing problems that are exacerbated by secondhand smoke,” Glymour said.
Source: bdnews24
Garden in a dish
July 31, 2008
There is no worry so great that can’t be eased by watching greenery. A garden no matter how small can become an important area for releasing stress and finding hope.
It is especially important to make sure that your home feels lively. You can easily decorate your living area and verandah with living plants potted in hand crafted pottery. Today, our focus is on ‘garden in a dish’. Like the arts of bonsai or indoor pot plants, nature here is controlled, manipulated and compartmentalizes to purely human ideals of nature.
Setting up a dish garden is easy and will only require a small list of materials and plants to make everything complete. The majority of your time spent is in selecting the right container, accents and the plants. Start by selecting small and easy-to-grow plants, adding a few simple accents of driftwood or pebbles, and you’re on your way to landscaping a piece of living artwork. With a little care, your dish garden can flourish and become a conversational piece at home or office.
Your dish garden should be planted in an open, shallow container. The size is only relevant to the number of plants it contains. You can choose to use products, which are designed for other uses, and surprise yourself at how perfect the planter may turn up as a dish garden. Personally, I prefer to use a dish instead of a bowl because it has a wider surface area to work on. A small piece of driftwood or decorative items like a ceramic bird, little wooden bridges would also do the trick.
There are only three or four simple steps for creating a dish garden.
Earth work
The base of the dish should be filled up to about one inch with hydroton (expended brown clay). Next, use a well-mixed commercial potting soil, consisting of peat moss, sand, perlite, vermiculite and sometimes coco peat. Add potting mix until it fills up the dish halfway.
Plants and planting
Dish gardens have limited root space; the plants will tend to outgrow their planter quite quickly. Therefore, it would be wise to choose slow growing plants to avoid the necessity for repotting them too often. Hence, plants such as Fittonia, Hedera Henix and Ficus pulima, which have the same general lighting and water requirements, are good candidates for a dish garden. Before proceeding, ensure that the plants are thoroughly watered especially at the roots. You can sketch out or visualize different planting arrangements; do it together with the small pieces of garden accents which you plan to use. It is important to arrange the plants according to how the dish garden is most likely to be viewed. Do not include too many plants for the sake of having it look immediately full. By adding fewer plants, you will have a healthier garden that is more manageable. In time, patience will reward you!
Decorating
We can use small pebbles to hide any bare plant stems, or to highlight an area of the garden. Any other ornaments such as birds, butterflies you choose to add to your landscape, will also add to the artistry and the character of your dish garden.
To create a small heaven on your earth, look for spaces that can be transformed into an in door garden.
Source: The Daily Star
Improving teacher quality in higher education
July 31, 2008
TEACHER quality in the higher education institutions in Bangladesh has become a constant refrain in recent times, both within the institutions (i.e. among teachers and students), as well as among corporate and government employers. The news, unfortunately, is not good. While some teachers get high marks and decent reviews, the larger community seems to be viewed with wariness and disappointment, if not with a hint of disdain. Since my observations are based on limited interactions and not really generalisable, it would not be fair to make any conclusive statements. However, the time is opportune for a systematic and large-scale study, preferably by the University Grants Commission or some other regulatory body, to make an empirical assessment. If the prevailing mood against teachers holds water, a case might be made for several immediate priorities: teacher selection, development, evaluation, and rewards.
Teacher selection
To strengthen the quality of higher education, it is imperative that a clear set of criteria be established for teacher selection. Two questions arise here: Is it that there are good selection criteria that are regularly bypassed by administrators or is it that such criteria are non-existent or so weak that they are not useful or usable?
For the first case, the issue is the problem of implementation caused by one of two factors (or both) – incompetence of those responsible for selection (including the boards) or moral hazard. To address these constraints, it is important to root out favouritism, nepotism, political pressure, and related factors that are largely responsible for recruiting faculty members who are unfit to teach at the higher education institutions. To accomplish this, it is vital for the selection decision to be widely shared and dispersed among various committees to select the best possible candidate through a well-publicised, transparent and documented process.
For the second case, the answer may be emulation followed by innovation. For example, there is much information available already and reinventing the wheel may not be necessary. It may thus be useful to review the criteria used by universities that higher education institutions in Bangladesh want to emulate. Such emulation ought to be realistic and resource driven to achieve the best fit. Innovation of selection criteria must take root with the higher education institution’s evolution and growth in reputation and impact.
Teacher development
Teacher development is for all teachers – I repeat, all teachers – because quality is a journey. One can improve oneself over a lifetime. It must envision a programme of quality improvement that requires a multifaceted approach that must be supported by experts and mentors, and guided by administrators in many ways. Teacher development ought to encompass the following:
Teachers must learn to design and upgrade courses and relevant materials that incorporate current thinking in the field. Departmental teams may be used to develop course materials and enhance the curriculum.
Teachers must be exposed to different approaches of reaching students that go beyond the traditional and oft-used lecture method. Training in the use of alternative pedagogical tools such as case-, situation analysis-, service- and research-based learning assists with learning that endures.
New teachers may be attached to mentors or master teachers to gain teaching experience and skills. Such mentors may also occasionally sit in the classroom to constructively point out the strengths and weaknesses of the teachers being developed. Mentors must also be given time off for their developmental role.
Teachers must be given the minimum tools to teach. Advancements in technology must be incorporated where possible to enable teachers to reach students in creative ways. Thus, technology awareness and training is an important component of teacher development.
Classroom activities and performance of teachers can occasionally be videotaped to allow them to self-evaluate their teaching style and delivery of content.
Resources also ought to be available to establish an independent instructional development programme staffed by trained professionals for pedagogical improvement and teaching support. The programme can serve as a resource centre to make teaching resources available for teachers to emulate.
Teacher evaluation
Teacher development must be followed by a system of evaluation that provides positive feedback and helps teachers attain goals consistent with a defined level of quality. In the private universities, especially the better ones, student evaluations have become standardized. Public higher education institutions must also begin to incorporate these practices quickly to enable an important stakeholder group to provide insights into the system’s ailments.
A culture of ‘peer evaluation’ may also be introduced whereby designated teachers are used periodically (at least once every year or two) to evaluate the quality of teaching of their peers. Two additional evaluation procedures that may be adopted include exit surveys (from graduating students) and alumni surveys (to asses the long term impact of teaching) to gain insights about the quality of teaching.
Where research is required, such research must also be evaluated. What type of research is to be valued must be established as a policy matter after extensive consultation with the faculty as some may value basic research while others prefer applied research. It is important to recognise that if the higher education institutions wish international recognition, the quality of their research must be assessed against international standards.
Source: New Age
Shooter Sharmin to carry our colours in Beijing Olympic
July 31, 2008
SAFF Games gold medalist shooter Sharmin Akhter will carry Bangladesh’s national flag in the march past during the gala opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic, scheduled for Aug 8 to 24. The decision was taken Wednesday at the Bangladesh Olympic Association’s meeting.
“Sharmin has been given the honour considering her previous successes and she is the best among six athletes taking part in the meet,” said BOA secretary general Kutubuddin Ahmed. Sharmin, who bagged gold, silver and bronze medals from regional extravaganza SAFF Games and finished fourth in Asia Shooting Championship, will compete in 10m air rifles event in the Beijing Olympic. Apart from Sharmin, five more contestants — swimmers Dolly Akther (50m freestyle), Rubel Rana (100m backstroke), athletes Nazmun Nahar Beauty (100m sprint), Mohammad Abu Abdullah (100m sprint) and shooter Mohammad Imam Hossain (10m air- rifles) — will represent Bangladesh in the world’s most colourful carnival.
Chef-de-mission Major General Shakil Ahmed met the Olympic-bound athletes, coaches and officials Wednesday at the BOA office at the National Sports Council and emphasised the need of maintaining discipline during the Games. “Not on the basis of merit, our participation is a symbolic one in the Olympic Games, so everyone has to uphold the country’s image and show the sportsmanship spirit in China,” Ahmed told the participants.
Ahmed also said, “We know we will not grab a gold in the meet, but we will remain disciplined so that no one can raise any question on disciplinary grounds.” BOA secretary general Kutubuddin said, “There is nothing to be worried and we should fight in every event we are taking part.” He stressing on discipline said, “We won’t certainly damage our country’s image aboard and we have to be champions in term of discipline.”
Bangladesh contingent, split into three groups, will leave here for China. The first batch consisting the chef-de-mission and BOA secretary general leaves Aug 4. The second batch comprising athletes and coaches will leave on Aug while the rest on Aug 7.
Source: bdnews24
BDR retains office handball league title
July 31, 2008
Director of Exim Bank Nurul Fazal Bulbul giving away prizes to the winners of the Design Zone 2nd Office Handball League at Dhaka Handball Ground on Wednesday.
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) clinched the title of Office Handball League for the second successive time defeating Bangladesh Police 34-27 in the final of the Design Zone 2nd Office Handball League at Dhaka Handball Ground in the city on Wednesday.
Khairuzzaman scored the highest eight goals, while Kamrul chipped in with seven goals for the winners, which led the first half 21-14. Helal was the best scorer for Police scoring six goals. Didar of Police team was adjudged the “Best Player of the Tournament’ for his praiseworthy performances throughout the competition.
Bangladesh Handball Federation (BHF) organised the four-team event under the sponsorship of Design Zone, while the other two participating teams were Bangladesh Jail and Cute Handball Club.
Director of Exim Bank Nurul Fazal Bulbul gave away prizes among the winners as chief guest after the final, while the General Secretary of BHF Asaduzzaman Kohinoor and its other officials were also present on the occasion.
Source: The Bangladesh Today
Drug addiction aggravates snatching in capital, other cities
July 31, 2008
Snatching and robbery go unabated at different parts of the capital Dhaka and other cities in the Country as in most of the cases the offenders go unpunished for lack of evidence.
In most of the incidents of snatching and robbery- the offenders are unknown to the victims and the victims file case with the Police Station saying that some unidentified criminals have robbed them of their money, parts, gold and other things. A case having been filed in this way has no development and the offenders thereof are not punished. When the snatchers are produced to the Courts, they come out for not having adequate evidence.
Talking to The Bangladesh Today, SI Ezaz (IGP prize winner) of Mirpur Police Station, said if in a case the accused is not identified by the victim and later police manage to arrest the accused along with the snatched goods, police give evidence against the accused to bring him to book. But in many cases it is not possible for law-enforcers to find the criminals along with snatched goods because the offenders hand over and shift the stolen goods from one area to another in the capital or from one city to another.
He added that although a snatcher is arrested from the spot soon after snatching but before being arrested he quickly hands over the goods to his other accomplices and later police have to produce him only before Court without the goods and later for lack of evidence the case ceases to exist.
In our legal system the “burden of proof” lies with the plaintiff and he has to prove in the Court that the accused has committed a particular crime against him and if plaintiff fails to prove the guilt then defendant gets “benefit of doubt”.
Several sections of the Penal Code define and determine different kinds of snatching. Section 392 applies when snatching of money or goods from a person is committed by (1-4) persons showing the victim fear, section 394 applies when money or goods are snatched coupled with physical attack on the victim by (1-4) persons, section 397 applies when dacoity is committed by 5 or more persons hurting the victim and section 396 applies when dacoity is committed by 5 or more persons killing the victim. Sometimes a snatching case can be transformed to dacoity case if the nature of the offence is that goods are taken away by five or more persons by showing fear or hurting or killing the victim. Dacoity with killing is so serious that the accused will be punished with death sentence or life imprisonment.
Terming ignorance of law among people responsible for increase in crime, SI Ezaz said there are some sections in the Penal Code which constitute severe punishment like death sentence and life imprisonment and if a snatcher or dacoit knows the consequence of section 396, he will not go in a group or kill the victim.
About the reason of snatching and robbery, SI Afzal of Mirpur PS, said the drug addiction has a relation with snatching and robbery incidents in different cities because many teenagers and youths are drug addicted and to collect the money for buying drugs, specially heroin, the drug addicts commit snatching and robbery.
About family background and socio-economic condition of snatchers, he said they are not of good families and good economic background. He said “Sons of good family do no become snatcher.” About the number of incidents he said weekly they arrest 2 or 3 snatchers.
Source: The Bangladesh Today