Zee flops with Sawal Dus Crore Ka
New Delhi: After branding it as a master-stroke that would wipe out rival, Star TV’s gain with its Kaun Banega Crorepati, the mega-game show brought on by Zee TV, Sawaal Dus Crore Ka, has proved to be a flop.

Recent ratings issued by the two monitoring agencies, INTAM and TAM, have shown that the much talked about game show on Zee got poor ratings in the first week of the launch.

While the INTAM rating gave the game show a poor 2.1, the TAM ratings put it at a pathetic 1.2. These ratings resulted in rumours that the channel would remove the game show off the air.
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Juniper set to sell routers in India
New Delhi: Juniper, the fast growing networking company started by known Indians in the US, has entered into a marketing and distribution alliances with Bluestar, Ericsson, Alcatel and Nortel to sell its internet routers in India.

Having launched its first router in 1998 the company has already garnered a 22 per cent global marketshare of the high-end internet router market. With a current turnover of $200 million, Juniper is a very fast-growing rival of Cisco.

Juniper’s clientele includes MCI Worldcom, Verio, QWest and Cable & Wireless. According to sources, VSNL is already testing out Juniper’s routers.
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Tata Consultancy plans Rs 40-crore development centre
New Delhi: India’s leading software developer, Tata Consultancy Services, is planning to invest up to Rs. 40 crore to set up a 'development centre' in Noida that will focus on banking and financial software applications. The centre is expected to come up by end of 2001.

The development centre was part of the Tata Sons division's overall plan of expanding its base for financial software development in the coming years. It is planned that the centre will be an independent facility (almost a software technology park) with high-speed data communication links to facilitate development operations.

The unit was expected to house 1,200 software professionals. TCS currently has eight of its development centres in India certified Software Engineering Institute-Capability Maturity Model level five, a high quality rating for software units.
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Shell, Cairns Energy in race for Enron's Panna pie
Mumbai: After energy major, Enron Corporation, pulled out of the Mukta-Panna oil and gas field consortium due to policy reasons, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell and Cairns Energy are understood to be in the race for the Enron stake.

Both Reliance and ONGC, who own 30 and 40 per cent respectively in the unincorporated venture, have evinced interest in buying out Enron's stake.

Cairns' bid for Enron's stake is also being seen as crucial, as the Australian company has the reputation of being one of the leading operators in the sector.

It is interesting to note that Shell and Cairns Energy have a strategic alliance for oil exploration in the south-east Asia. In fact, the production work at Shell's oil field in Rajasthan is being handled by Cairns.
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Maruti strike: in sight of a resolution
New Delhi: With the workers relenting on their demand for immediate implementation of pay revision, the end to the long strike at Maruti Udyog seems to be coming to an end.

The union has agreed to withdraw the strike on a condition that the management does not press for implementation of the proposed code of conduct, reinstates the 83 suspended workers and pays salary for the strike period.
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Indian Rayon going for capacity expansion
Mumbai: Following the new policy, which allows dereservation of the garment sector, the Aditya Birla-group company, Indian Rayon, has decided to go in for capacity expansion and introduction of advanced technology in the garment business.

The company is planning to make an initial investment of around Rs 20-25 crore for the proposed expansion. Currently, eight units together supply around six lakh pieces per month to Indian Rayon’s garment outfit, Madura Garments.
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