Jordan gets new villa in pink.
The pink villa, is said to have picked pink-flecked marble for the inside of the house, which also has a lift to a rooftop terrace with a pool Jordan has had a luxurious holiday villa built for her family and it's in her favourite colour, pink, inside...

Moser Baer buys 81% stake in Philips optical media R&D unit.
NEW DELHI: Moser Baer has acquired a majority stake in OM&T, the Netherlands based R&D arm of Philips. The E10 million OM&T specialises in optical media R&D and will help optical disc maker Moser Baer in developing Blue Ray discs. These are the next generation optical discs,...

Disturbances in Cyprus in October, 1931.
I. Despatch from the Governor of Cyprus to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. (Received 20th February, 1932) Government House, Nicosia 11th February, 1932 SIR, I have the honour to submit the following report on the disturbances which...

Kopran to issue preference shares to Cyprus.
The company has proposed to issue 47.20 lakh equity shares and 58.42 lakh warrants at Rs 54.70 (including a premium of RS 44.70) each to Clearwater Capital. A company statement issued said that this additional fund infusion will be used to fund future operations, including capital expenditure,...

ESIL to acquire oil drilling rigs in Oslo & US.
Cyprus-based Essar Shipping & Logistics Ltd (ESLL) is all set to acquire of on-shore and offshore oil drilling rigs from two pubilcly listed companies in Oslo and the US. The deal is expected to be around $400 mn, and will be done through ESLL's wholly owned subsidiary...

Annual reports.
This is a list of British Reports on Cyprus from the colonial period that can be found in the National Archive at Girne. The Archive has catalogued the Annual Reports by topic. The C.S. Circulars (No. 2475/01) describes the Reports as summaries of facts pertinent to a specific location...

School's out: Jeffrey Kastner on Manifesta 6.
BY THE TIME you read this, the convoluted legal battles being waged this summer over the abrupt cancellation of Manifesta 6--which was scheduled to open in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, on September 23--may very well have been settled. Yet even if cooler heads prevail in a pair of...

Thin green line.
Manifesta 6, due to run from September 17 to December 23, has run aground in Nicosia in Cyprus. On June 1, the locks were changed on its temporary office in Nicosia and Michael Zampelas, Nicosia's mayor, terminated the contracts of the three curators who were working to realise the...

Essar Shipping to buy 2 oil rigs for $400 m.
MUMBAI: Cyprus-based Essar Shipping & Logistics (ESLL) is set to acquire onshore and offshore oil drilling rigs from two companies in Norway and the US for $400 million. The company has also lined up around $1 billion for acquiring crude oil and bulk carriers. ESLL chief executive...

New global chain forged, ONGC, Mittal float 2 oil cos.
NEW DELHI: It was the coming together of the titans. India's largest oil producing company, the $14bn ONGC group on Saturday joined hands with the world's largest steel giant, the $22bn Mittal Steel to float two Cyprus-based companies for acquisition of overseas oil and gas assets and energy related...