Short Name Full Form or 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 (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 CNG Compressed Natural gas

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

Short
Full Form or Abbreviations
Name

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

 Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus
G7
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 Imunodeficiencym 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

Short
Full Form or Abbreviations
Name

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 ISPR inter services public relations

IST Indian Standard Time

ITBP Indo-Tibetan Border Police

ITES Information Technology enabled services

ITI Indian Telephone Industries<br> 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<br>Least Common Denominator

LCM Lowest Common Multiple

LIC Life Insurance Corporation (of India)

LLB Bachelor of Laws

LMC Large Megallanic Cloud LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas

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

National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security

NCSA
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

 Short
Full Form or Abbreviations
Name

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<br> 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

 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's
UNICEF
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

IPO Initial Public Offering
IPS Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service
IQ Intelligence Quotient
IRC International Red Cross
IRDP Integrated Rural Development Programme
FIMOS Ru
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<br> Industrial Training Institute
ITU International Telecommunication Union
IVFIn-Vitro Fertilisation
IVMIn-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<br>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
MODE Mmodulator 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