Binoy Viswam to attend May Day fete in Sri Lanka

Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam will participate in the May Day celebrations of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) government in Sri Lanka. Though the CPI and JVP have been in touch for over a decade, this is the first official meeting between leaders of the two parties. The JVP’s recent victory in…

Insufficient support for deep tech, startups by public-funded R&D: Study

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Image/iStockphoto Only about one in four public-funded research and development organisations in India give incubation support to start-ups and only one in six provide support to ‘deep tech’ startups. Only 15% collaborated with industry overseas and only half of them opened their facilities to outside researchers and students,…