Glance-UPDATE 1-Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

(Adds British Airways, Areva and others, updates Liberty Global) Nov 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 1430 GMT on Friday. ** South Korea's TV shopping channel, GS Shopping , said it was set to buy a 15 percent stake in India's TV18 HSN Holdings Ltd for 21.4 billion won ($18.5 million), to break into the market.(To read more, click on ) ** A 5 percent stake sale in state-run Indian power producer NTPC could fetch the government 81 billion rupees ($1.7 billion), Sunil Mitra, a senior finance ministry official, said. ** Poland's leading refiner PKN Orlen has shortlisted three bidders for its chemical arm Anwil who will conduct due diligence of the unit, Chief Financial Officer Slawomir Jedrzejczyk said. ** Digital TV company Kudelski said it had bought about 60 percent of the shares in OpenTV Corp it had not already owned for $1.55 a share, taking its voting rights to 91 percent. ** Liberty Global, the international cable operator controlled by John Malone, has agreed to buy Unitymedia from a private equity group for $3 billion in its first German acquisition. ** Idemitsu Kosan Co, Japan's third-largest refiner, said it would buy British oil explorer Petro Summit Investment UK Ltd, a subsidiary of Japanese trader Sumitomo Corp. ** Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has rejected an invitation to contribute its 31.1 percent stake in Russia's third-largest mobile operator MegaFon to a new company announced by TeliaSonera and Russia's Alfa Group. ** The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) said it has bought 3 million 'Class A' shares of Hyatt Hotels Corp , which raised $950 million this month in an initial public offering. ** British renewable energy company Novera Energy is reviewing interest from bidders in a minority stake in one of its operating wind farm assets. ** British property investor Rugby Estates Investment Trust (REIT) has urged shareholders to reject an offer from Terra Investments, saying the 41-pence a share bid fails to reflect the underlying value and growth potential. ** Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro sold a third of its holding in outsourcer Mahindra Satyam on Friday for about $66 million, three sources close to the deal said. ** British Airways' pension fund deficit could yet scupper its planned merger with Spain's Iberia, as the UK airline still has to agree the size of the multi-billion pound shortfall with the fund's trustees, ** Unions for French nuclear reactor builder Areva sent an open letter to French legislators, asking them to block the sale of Areva's transmission and distribution (T&D) business. ** India's top mortgage lender, Housing Development Finance Corp, said it had agreed to buy about 41 percent in education loan provider Credila Financial Services from DSP Merrill Lynch Capital. (Compiled by Shobhana Chadha in Bangalore) ([e-mail]; within U.S. [phone]; outside U.S.

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