Washington - Three Democrats have won Senate seats in elections on Tuesday that had previously been held by Republicans, an outcome that could help increase their control in the upper chamber of Congress, television network projections showed.
Former Democratic Virginia governor Mark Warner defeated a former Republican governor, James Gilmore, to take the seat occupied by Republican Senator John Warner, television network projections showed. Senator Warner, who is not related to the newly-elected senator, is retiring.
Washington - The US television news network CNN debuted a new camera technology that "beamed" one of its correspondents into its central election studio a la Star Wars.
Reporter Jessica Yellin's image was transmitted Tuesday night from Chicago and appeared as a holographically projected image in New York.
Moderator Wolf Blitzer spoke with Yellin's image in a first-of-its-kind transmission that is to be used to broadcast other CNN correspondents and interview subjects from Chicago, where the Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama's campaign is watching Tuesday's election returns roll in, and in Phoenix, where Republican candidate Senator John McCain is headquartered.
LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, is looking at selling one million monitors during this fiscal.
The company is targeting to sell one million monitors (both CRT and LCD) in 2008-09, of which 6.5 lakh are in the LCD space and 3.5 lakh will be CRT monitors.
LG Electronics, a major player in the global flat panel display, has recently entered into the B2B space for corporate and enterprise customers to increase sales.
Public sector lender UCO Bank has notified that it would cut prime lending rate by 50 basis points by next week.
The bank has stated in a release that it has decided to cut PLR by half a per cent and ALCO (Assets and Liability Committee) of the bank would meet on November 10 to review the interest rate scenario.
State-run gas utility Gas Authority India Limited (GAIL) has informed that it has signed a Co-operation agreement with Government of Himachal Pradesh to link the hill state with the national gas grid.
GAIL was setting up gas pipeline networks from Uttar Pradesh to Haryana to Punjab and finally to Himachal Pradesh. The 610-km long Dadri-Bawana-Nangal pipeline, which will pass through Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab entails an investment worth Rs 25 billion.