Sumeet Chatterjee

Reported fresh attempts to outdo BHP Billiton's $39-billion bid for Canadian group Potash Corp look unwieldy, analysts said.

The chairperson of India's Satyam Computer Services will appear in court on Saturday, a police official said, a day after he was arrested.

Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile operator, may seek a merger or share swap with MTN Group to try to avoid a bidding war for the South African phone firm, analysts and media reports say. A successful deal would be India's biggest foreign acquisition and create the world's sixth-largest mobile operator.

The Indian cricket board short-listed South Africa's Graham Ford on Monday for the job of national coach and eliminated Australian Dav Whatmore from contention. A board official said the former South Africa coach and another unidentified candidate would be called to meet its coaching committee on Saturday.