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HCL Infosystems declared that it has purchased a 60% equity stake in NTS Group, a leading Dubai-based IT services and solutions company.

Though HCL Infosystems did not reveal the size of the deal, according to market analysts, it was around $6.5 million.

The acquirement of NTS will now assist HCL Infosystems strengthen its attendance in the Middle East and African markets.

According to new survey, around 80 percent of females residing in the national capital fear for their security in the city.

The survey was carried out by the Delhi administration's women and child development department, NGO Jagori and international organisation Unifem.

The survey, which released on Thursday, is based on interviews of 5,010 individuals, comprising 3,816 females and 944 males.

U. S. officials have said that four high-powered semiautomatic guns are missing from a suitcase belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security team.

The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal have reported that the luggage went missing after being checked at New York's Kennedy International Airport Sunday for an American Airlines flight to Washington ahead of Netanyahu's meeting with President Barack Obama Tuesday. The luggage turned up in Los Angeles and was sent back to Washington by way of Chicago.

According to the reports a federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ruled a law prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriage unconstitutionally "encroaches" on state powers.

Gay and lesbian couples may not be denied the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples, said U. S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro, ruling in two separate challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act.

According to reports, the U. S. Coast Guard gave up the search Thursday for two Hungarian tourists missing after a barge struck a Duck Boat off Philadelphia.

KYW-TV, Philadelphia, has reported that Petty Officer Crystal Kneen said there is no hope that the two are still alive. She said the Coast Guard spent 20 hours trying to find a 20-year-old man and 16-year-old girl who have not been seen since the boat capsized and sank Wednesday afternoon in the Delaware River.

Mahindra & Mahindra expressed that it shall be rolling out on the red carpets the micro-hybrid version of its upcoming versatile machine Xylo prior to the year-end, as it moves up to launch two electric cars from the Reva string by the end of the year 2011.