Devidutta Tripathy

An Indian woman whose gang rape in New Delhi triggered violent protests has died of her injuries on Saturday in a Singapore hospital.

The loss-making African operation of Bharti Airtel is expected to dent near-term earnings of India’s biggest mobile operator.

Indian police arrested the former chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday as part of a crackdown on corruption.

Vodafone will buy out Indian partner Essar in a $5-billion deal that ratchets up its exposure to a mobile market that has proved challenging.

Bharti Airtel looks set to wrap up its $9-billion deal to buy most of Kuwaiti telecom group Zain’s African assets.

Bharti Airtel said it had tied up the entire financing requirement of $8,3-billion for its planned buy of Kuwaiti telecom Zain’s African assets.

Bharti Airtel said $9-billion was not a high price for Kuwaiti telecom Zain’s African assets given the growth opportunities.

India’s Bharti Airtel launched its third attempt to gain a foothold in Africa, entering $10,7-billion talks to buy most of telecom Zain’s assets.

Indian cellphone company Bharti Airtel denied it had reached an agreement with MTN on a multibillion-dollar share and cash swap.

State Bank of India has offered a loan of up to -billion to Bharti Airtel to partly fund the Indian telecoms firm’s planned stake buy in MTN.

MTN and India’s Bharti Airtel have revived merger talks to create a -billion telecoms giant spanning Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

A fresh row between India’s warring billionaire Ambani brothers could delay, but not kill, a tie-up of Reliance Communications and South Africa’s MTN.

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…