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ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS
AAA : Asian Athletics Association
AAFI : The Amateur Athletics Federation of India
AC : Ante Christum (Before Christ), 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 Informa-tion Interchange
ASEAN : Association of South East Asian Na-tions
AT&T : American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.
ATC : Air Traffic Control
ATM :Automated Teller Machine
BARC : Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation
BC : Before Christ
BHEL :Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd
BIOS : Basic Input Output System
BIT : Binary Digit
BPL : Below Poverty Line
BSE : Bombay Stock Exchange
BSF : Border Security Force
BSNL: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
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
CIA : Central Intelligence Agency
CID : Criminal Investigation Department
CITU : Centre of Indian Trade Unions
CNN : Cable News Network
COPRA : Consumer Protection Act
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
CYMK : Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Key
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-MAIL : Electronic Mailing
EMI : Equated Monthly Instalments
ERNET : Educational and Research Network
FBI :Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCI : Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India
FDI : Foreign Direct Investment
FICCI : Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
FIFA : International Football Federation (Fed-eration Internationale de Football Associa-tion)
FIR : First Information Report
FM :Frequency modulation
GATE :Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineer-ing
GDP : Gross Domestic Product
GMAT :Graduate Management Admission Test
GMT :Greenwich Mean Time
GSLV : Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Ve-hicle
GSM : Global System for Mobile Communica-tions
GUI : Graphical User Interface
HIV : Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HMI : Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
HUDCO : HousingandUrbanDevelopmentCorp.
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 Educa-tion
IDA : International Development Agency
IDBI : Industrial Development Bank of India
IEEE : Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
IELTS : InternationalEnglishLanguageTesting System
IFC: Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation
IFS : Indian Foreign Service/Indian Forest Service
IGNOU : Indira Gandhi National Open Uni-versity
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 : InternetProtocol
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<br> Industrial Training Institute
ITU : International Telecommunication Union
IVF : In-Vitro Fertilisation
NASA : National Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration
IVM : In-vitro Maturation
JEE : Joint Entrance Examination
JPEG : Joint Photographic Expert Group
LASER : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD : Liquid Crystal Display<br>Least Common Denominator
LIC : Life Insurance Corporation (of India)
LLB : Bachelor of Laws
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
MCI : Medical Council of India
MICR : Magnetic ink character recognition
MLA : Member of Legislative Assembly
MNC : Multi-National Corporation
MODEM : modulator demodulator
MP : Member of Parliament
MPEG : Motion Picture Experts Group
NAAC :National Assessment and Accreditation Council
NASDAQ :National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
NASSCOM : National Association of Software and Service Companies
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NCERT : National Council of Educational Research and Training
NDA : National Defence Academy
NOC : No Objection Certificate
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)
PIN : Postal Index Number
PSLV : Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PWD: Public Works Department; R&D Research and Development
NABARD National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development RADAR
NALCO National Aluminium Company Ltd. RAM
RAW Research & Analysis Wing
RBI : Reserve Bank of India
RDX : Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim- ethylin Trinitrate)
RNA : Ribonucleic acid
ROM : Read Only Memory
RTI : Right to Information
SAIL : Steel Authority of India Limited
SEBI : Securities and Exchange Board of India
SENSEX : SensitivityIndex(ofSharePrice)
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
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
UNICEF: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (now, ‘United Nations Children’s Fund’)
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 Organization
WTO: World Trade Orga-nisation
WWF : World Wildlife Fund
WWW : World Wide Web
XML : Extensible Mark-up Language
YMCA :Young Men’s Christian Association
ZIP : Zone Improvement Plan