Short Name Full Form or Abbrevations
- 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 (before Noon), 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
- BIT Binary Digit
- 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(M) Communist Party of India / Marxist
- 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
- i.e. id est (that is)
- 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
- M.A. Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)
- M.D 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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