Crisil in pact with teauction.com The Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd (Crisil) has entered into an alliance with teauction.com, a leading B2B online tea exchange, to provide e-commerce evaluation and e-commerce rating services for the teauction.com exchange participants. Under this alliance, credibility first (a division of Crisil) would be working with teauction.com to offer the first of its kind performance ratings to tea industry participants.

B4U Music and B4U Movies to be telecast in Africa
B4U Music and B4U Movies will now be telecast across Africa from January 29. These channels will be made available through Multichoice, the DTH operator in Africa. Today, B4U is aired in the UK, the US, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East among other countries. Sharekhan opens franchisee outlet in Amritsar In a pioneering attempt to expand its offline activities, Sharekhan in alliance with Maxpro Securities Pvt Ltd announced the launch of another one of its franchisee outlets in Amritsar. Sharekhan has been launched by SSKI Investor Services Pvt Ltd, a 50-year-old broking house known for its broking experience, trust and experience.

Intel Science Fair: Two individual entries, one team project declared winnersTwo of the best individual entries and one team project were announced winners on Monday of the Intel Science Talent Discovery Fair 2001 national finals, which was held in Mumbai from January 26-29, 2001. The national winners represented by Ruchira Bajpai (Individual Category), Yash Vasant Joshi (Individual Category), Bharat Suresh Mahatre and Amit Kiran Sowani (Team Category) will represent India at Intel International Science Engineering Fair Grand Finals to be held in San Jose, California from May 6-12, 2001. Birlasoft plans domestic listing in next fiscalCK Birla group company Birlasoft Ltd is planning to list in the domestic market in the next fiscal, 2001-02, following which it would go for an organisational restructuring to streamline its Indian and overseas operations, reports PTI.

Bilingual telecom bills from MTNL-Xerox ModicorpMTNL, Mumbai, and Xerox Modicrop Limited, have initiated a pilot project for bilingual bill printing facility. The software engineers from Xerox Modicrop and the National Centre for Software Technologies have integrated and Xerox Printing System with English-Devnagri transliteration.