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Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland waiting on the sidelines of a looming multibillion-pound court battle against the bank must put up or shut up, the judge overseeing the case warned yesterday. Mr Justice Hildyard said that the time was "fast approaching" when the case should ignore the wishes of "interested spectators". - The TimesOne of a clutch of delivery companies to have made bold claims that it would profit from the decline in Royal Mail is set to be floated on the stock market ? for the second time in 10 years. DX Group is expected to say today that it plans to raise £170m on AIM in an initial public offering that would value the company at up to £180m. - The Times India plans to pull out of talks with Vodafone over a $2bn (£1.2bn) tax dispute, in a move that will prolong a row that is already more than six years old and increase uncertainty among investors in Asia's third-largest economy. India's finance ministry is preparing to seek the cabinet's approval to withdraw conciliation proceedings after Vodafone wanted a separate tax dispute to be made part of the deal, according to an internal government note. - The GuardianComcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable in a deal that values its smaller rival at $45.2bn after a six-month battle to consolidate America's fragmented pay-TV market, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal, which will be confirmed on Thursday morning, brings together the country's largest and second-largest cable companies by subscribers and is likely to face an intense regulatory battle. Comcast is expected to divest 3m subscribers if the deal goes through. - Financial TimesCreditors in Punch Taverns are weeks away from agreeing a major debt-for-equity restructuring designed to relieve the stricken pubs group from its £2.3bn debt overhang. A major bondholder group - which speaks for investors including Standard Life, M&G and Aviva - said that a restructuring plan is "well advanced." The comments came despite the 11th hour collapse of a rival restructuring plan put forward by Punch Taverns, the London-listed operating company which provides the beer to more than 4,000 leased pubs across the UK. - Daily TelegraphA shortage of homes for sale is threatening to stifle the recovery in the housing market, but estate agents are hoping that a spring in activity will solve the problem. In its latest health check of the market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said that the number of homes for sale had tumbled to its lowest level since July 2012, despite the number of potential buyers continuing to surge ahead in most regions. - The TimesAB