The Ashgabat agreement is a multimodal transport agreement. It aims to enhance the transport corridor between Central Asia and Persian Gulf through International North-South Transport Corridor encompassing ship, rail and road route. Its member countries are Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and India. India joined the Ashgabat agreement on 2nd February 2018.
North-Eastern Zonal Council has eight states viz, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam. Taking states and UTs together, the Northern zonal council has the maximum number of states and UT.
Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, is the father of the Indian Space Industry, a multi-faceted personality, was a distinguished cosmic-ray and space scientist, an institution builder, industrialist, a management expert, educationist, a connoisseur of arts and above all a great human being. He founded the Physical Research Laboratory which later served as the cradle of Space Science Research in India.
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