Real-Estate & Infrastructure

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has extended the deadline for paying holding tax and renewing trade license respectively without paying 10 percent surcharge till October 31.

The government is planning to incentivise private tanneries in setting up their own effluent treatment plants in Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) to expedite the attainment of the much-required Leather Working Group (LWG) certification to increase leather goods exports.

Kamalapur Inland Container Depot (ICD) Customs House of the National Board of Revenue blamed the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) for creating hindrances to trade facilitation through making delay in release of imported goods at the customs house.

Hit hard by Covid-19 fallout, businesses in the tourism sector in the beach town of Cox’s Bazar look for a gradual comeback after Eid-ul-Azha eyeing the next winter as an opportunity to stay afloat by hosting tourists from home and abroad in the hub of the country’s tourism industry.

Dubai has set a target of 3D printing 25% of all buildings by 2030

The government has decided to put a hold on the implementation of low-priority development projects involving Tk 40,000 crore to free up funds for the productive sectors amid widening revenue shortfall.

CHATTOGRAM: Chittagong port, the prime sea port of Bangladesh and Kolkata Port Trust (KPT) are being ready for transshipment between the two neighbouring countries. The trial transshipment will start from the current week.

Instead of a traditional allocation for the health sector, the government should give clear directions with short, mid and long terms projects and adequate fund allocation to rescue the sector and fight the Covid-19 pandemic,” former Commerce Minister and BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, told Dhaka Tribune’s Ibrahim Hossain …

Bangladesh plans to redesign its incentive package to draw foreign direct investments (FDI) to negate COVID-19 pandemic onslaughts on national economy, keeping an extra eye on prospective sources in the South-East, officials said.

Steel Building Manufacturers Association (SBMA) of Bangladesh today demanded withdrawing the existing facilities of importing duty-free ‘steel building finish goods’ here by foreign companies as a safeguard to protect the local manufacturers.