Other Abbreviations
- 3G : Third Generation
- AAA : Asian Athletics Association
- AAFI : The Amateur Athletics Federation of India
- AC : Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner
- ADB : Asian Development Bank
- AFI : Athletics Federation of India
- AFMC : Armed Forces Medical College
- AI : Artifical Intelligence, Air India
- AICTE : All India Council for Technical Education
- AIFF : All India Football Federation
- AIIMS : All India Institute of Medical Science
- AITUC : All India Trade Union Congress
- ALGOL : Algebric Oriented Language
- AM : Ante Meridiem, Amplitude Modulation
- APEC : Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
- ARPANET : Advanced Research Project Agency Network
- ASCII : American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASEAN : Association of South East Asian Nations
- ASLV : Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
- AT&T : American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.
- ATC : Air Traffic Control
- ATM : Automated Teller Machine
- AVSM : Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
- B2B : Busines to Business
- B2C : Business to Consumer
- BARC : Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- BBC : British Broadcasting Corporation
- BBS : Bulletin Board Service
- BC : Before Christ
- BHEL : Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd
- BIOS : Basic Input Output System
- BPL : Below Poverty Line
- BPO : Business Process Outsourcing
- BPR : Business Process Re-engineering
- bps : bytes per second
- BSE : Bombay Stock Exchange
- BSF : Border Security Force
- BSNL : Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
- C2C : Consumer to Consumer
- CA : Chartered Accountant
- CAD : Computer Aided Design
- CAT : Common Admission Test
- CBI : Central Bureau of Investigation
- CBSE : Central Board of Secondary Education
- CDAC : Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing
- CDMA : Code Division Multiple Access
- CEO : Chief Executive Officer
- CFSL : Central Forensic Science Laboratory
- CGI : Common Gateway Interface
- CIA : Central Intelligence Agency
- CID : Criminal Investigation Department
- CISC : Complex instruction set computing
- CITU : Centre of Indian Trade Unions
- CNN : Cable News Network
- COMSAT : Communications Satellite Corporation
- COPRA : Consumer Protection Act
- CORBA : Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- CPI : Communist Party of India
- CPWD : Central Public Works Department
- CRIS : Centre for Railway Information System
- CSIR : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- CTBT : Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- CYMK : Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda
- D.Litt. : Doctor of Literature
- D.Phil. : Doctor of Philosophy
- D.Sc : Doctor of Science
- DC : Direct Current
- DIG : Deputy Inspector General
- DMA : Direct Memory Access
- DMK : Dravida Munetra Kazhagam
- DNA : Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid
- DTP : Desktop Publishing
- DVC : Damodar Valley Corporation
- DVD : Digital Versatile/Video Disc
- E & OE : Errors and Omissions Excepted
- EDI : Electronic Data Interchange
- EIS : Executive Information System
- E-MAIL : Electronic Mailing
- EMI : Equated Monthly Instalments
- ENIAC : Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
- ENT : Ear, Nose and Throat
- EOF : end of file
- EOT : Eastern Daylight Time
- EPABX : Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange
- ERNET : Educational and Research Network
- FAQ : Frequently Asked Question
- FBI : Federal Bureau of Investigation
- FBT : Fringe Benefit Tax
- FBTR : Fast Breeder Test Reactor
- FBW : Fly-By-Wire
- FCI : Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India
- FDI : Foreign Direct Investment
- FEMA : Foreign Exchange Management Act
- FICCI : Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
- FIFA : International Football Federation (Federation Internationale de Football Association)
- FIR : First Information Report
- FM : Frequency modulation
- FRCP : Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
- FRCS : Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
- FRCS : Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- FRS : Fellow of the Royal Society
- G7 : Group of Seven(US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada)
- G8 : includes G7 plus Russia
- GATE : Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
- GATS : General Agreement on Trade and Services
- GDP : Gross Domestic Product
- GMAT : Graduate Management Admission Test
- GMT : Greenwich Mean Time
- GSLV : Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
- GSM : Global System for Mobile Communications
- GSP : Generalised System Preference
- GUI : Graphical User Interface
- HAL : Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- HIV : Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- HMI : Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
- HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
- HUDCO : Housing and Urban Development Corp.
- HVAC : Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
- IAAI : International Airport Authority of India
- IAEA : International Atomic Energy Agency
- IARI : Indian Agricultural Research Institute
- IAS : Indian Administrative Service
- IATA : International Air Transport Association
- IBM : International Business Machines
- ICSE : Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
- ICU : Intensive Care Unit
- ICWA : Indian Council of World Affairs
- IDA : International Development Agency
- IDBI : Industrial Development Bank of India
- IEEE : Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
- IELTS : International English Language Testing System
- IFC : Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation
- IFS : Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service
- IGNOU : Indira Gandhi National Open University
- IIPA : Indian Institute of Public Administration
- IISCO : Indian Iron and Steel Company
- IISS : International Institute of Strategic Studies
- IIT : Indian Institute of Technology
- ILA : Indian Library Association
- ILO : International Labour Organisation
- IMAP : Internet Mail Access Protocol
- IMF : International Monetary Fund
- INA : Indian National Army
- INTUC : Indian National Trade Union Congress
- IOC : Indian Oil Corporation
- IP : Internet Protocol
- IPC : Indian Penal Code
- IPCL : Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd
- IPI : International Press Institute
- IPO : Initial Public Offering
- IPS : Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service
- IQ : Intelligence Quotient
- IRC : International Red Cross
- IRDP : Integrated Rural Development Programme
- IRS : Indian Revenue Service
- ISBN : International Standard Book Number
- ISDN : Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISI : Indian Standards Institution; Inter Services Intelligence
- ISKCON : International Society for Krishna Consciousness
- ISO : International Standards Organisation
- ISRO : Indian Space Research Organisation
- IST : Indian Standard Time
- ITBP : Indo-Tibetan Border Police
- ITES : Information Technology enabled services
- ITI : Indian Telephone Industries, Industrial Training Institute
- ITU : International Telecommunication Union
- IVF : In-Vitro Fertilisation
- IVM : In-vitro Maturation
- JCO : Junior Commissioned Officer
- JEE : Joint Entrance Examination
- JPEG : Joint Photographic Expert Group
- LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- LCA : Light Combat Aircraft
- LCD : Liquid Crystal Display, Least Common Denominator
- LCM : Lowest Common Multiple
- LIC : Life Insurance Corporation (of India)
- LLB : Bachelor of Laws
- LMC : Large Megallanic Cloud
- LTTE : Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
- MA : Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)
- MD : Doctor of Medicine
- MBA : Master of Business Administration
- MBBS : Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
- MCC : Marylebone Cricket Club
- MCI : Medical Council of India
- MICR : Magnetic ink character recognition
- MIDI : Musical Instrument Digital Interface
- MIPS : Million Instructions per Second
- MIT : Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master Instruction Tape
- MLA : Member of Legislative Assembly
- MNC : Multi-National Corporation
- MODEM : modulator demodulator
- MP : Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh
- MPEG : Motion Picture Experts Group
- MRCP : Member of the Royal College of Physicians
- MTCR : Missile Technology Control Regime
- MVC : Maha Vir Chakra
- NAAC : National Assessment and Accreditation Council
- NABARD : National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
- NAFED : National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation
- NALCO : National Aluminium Company Ltd.
- NASA : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASDAQ : National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
- NASSCOM : National Association of Software and Service Companies
- NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- NAV : Net Asset Value
- NCERT : National Council of Educational Research and Training
- NCSA : National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association
- NDA : National Defence Academy
- NOC : No Objection Certificate
- NPA : Non-performing Assets
- NPT : Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NRF : National Renewal Fund
- NSUI : National Students Union of India
- NTPC : National Thermal Power Corporation
- OBC : Other Backward Classes
- OCR : Optical Character Recognition
- ONGC : Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
- OOP : Object Oriented Programme
- OPEC : Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- OSCAR : Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
- PAN : Permanent Account Number
- Ph.D. : Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor)
- PIL : Public Interest Litigation
- PIN : Postal Index Number
- PSLV : Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
- PWD : Public Works Department
- R&D : Research and Development
- RADAR : Radio Detecting and Ranging
- RAM : Random Access Memory
- RAW : Research & Analysis Wing
- RBI : Reserve Bank of India
- RDX : Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate)
- RISC : Reduced instruction-set computing
- RNA : Ribonucleic acid
- ROM : Read Only Memory
- RPM : Revolutions Per Minute
- RTI : Right to Information
- SAIL : Steel Authority of India Limited
- SARS : Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- SCSI : Small Computer Systems Interface
- SEBI : Securities and Exchange Board of India
- SENSEX : Sensitivity Index (of Share Price)
- SEZ : Special Economic Zone
- SGPC : Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee
- SIM : Subscriber Information Module
- SLV : Satellite Launch Vehicle
- SMS : Short Message Service
- SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- STD : Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- TADA : Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
- TCP : Transfer Call Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol
- TELCO : Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
- TFT : Thin-Film Transistor
- TIFR : Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- TISCO : Tata Iron and Steel Company
- TOEFL : Test of English as a Foreign Language
- UAV : Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- UGC : University Grants Commission
- ULFA : United Liberation Front of Asom
- UNESCO : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-sation
- UNI : United News of India
- UNICEF : United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund')
- UNU : United Nations University
- UPA : United Progressive Alliance
- UPSC : Union Public Service Commission
- URL : Uniform Resource Locator
- VAT : Value Added Tax
- VCR : Video Cassette Recorder
- VIP : Very Important Person
- VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege
- VRML : Virtual Reality Modelling Language
- VRS : Voluntary Retirement Scheme
- VSSC : Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
- WHO : World Health Organisation
- WMO : World Meteorological Organisation
- WTO : World Trade Orga-nisation
- WWF : World Wildlife Fund
- WWW : World Wide Web
- WYSIWYG : What you see is what you get
- XML : Extensible Mark-up Language
- YMCA : Young Men's Christian Association
- ZIP : Zone Improvement Plan
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