MUMBAI: Netizens can now book designs and back end solutions online at the Express Design Studio on www.expressindia. com/studio. The users can avail total online solutions and services including creating web sites to designing banners and CGI scripting. They can login to the site and fill up a creative brief sheet with details of the web site and banners and then can print a release order and mail back. Any queries can be cleared through an exclusive chat on the site while the currency converter takes care of the issue of changing money. The studio is being launched at the Internet World in New Delhi on September 22.

Crisil downgrades Cable Corp, Torrent

MUMBAI: Crisil has downgraded a Rs 31.5 crore non-convertible debenture programme of Cable Corporation of India to C from BB+. "The revision in rating takes into account the continuing pressure on the profitability of the company arising out of the sluggish demand and the high degree of competition facing theindustry," Crisil said. It has also downgraded the fixed deposit progamme of Torrent Cables, while the NCDs of Shreyans Industries Ltd were downgraded to default category. The downward revision of the rating of Torrent takes into account TCL's deteriorating financial position, it said.