Mobile phone operators Robi and Airtel are likely to see a merger as their parent companies -- Malaysia-based Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and India’s Bharti Airtel Limited (Bharti) -- are exploring possibilities of combining their telecoms business operations in Bangladesh. Axiata and Bharti wish to announce that they have entered into an exclusive discussion to explore the possibility of merging the business operations of their telecommunication subsidiaries in Bangladesh, namely—Robi Axiata Limited and Airtel Bangladesh Limited, according to a joint statement of Robi and Airtel received by The Independent yesterday. There is, however, no certainty that this discussion will lead into the execution of binding definitive agreements…

Apprehension of severe disruption in the academic activities of thousands of students looms large as…