| 3G |
Third Generation |
| 3HO |
Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization |
| AAA |
Asian Athletics Association |
| AAF |
Auxiliary Air Force |
| AAFI |
The Amateur Athletics Federation of India |
| AAI |
Airport Authority of India |
| AAOU |
Asian Association of Open Universities |
| ABCDEFGHIJ |
American Born Confused Desi Emigrated From Gujarat, House In Jersey |
| AC |
Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner |
| ACCET |
Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology |
| ACD |
Asian Co-operation Dialogue |
| ADB |
Asian Development Bank |
| ADS |
Air Defence Ship |
| AEC |
Atomic Energy Commission |
| AeSIJ |
Aeronautical Society India Journal |
| AFI |
Athletics Federation of India |
| AFMC |
Armed Forces Medical College |
| AGP |
Asom Gana Parishad, regional party in Assam |
| AHQ |
Air Head Quarters; Army Head Quarters |
| AI |
Artifical Intelligence, Air India |
| AIADMK |
All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| AICC |
All India Congress Committee |
| AICTE |
All India Council for Technical Education |
| AIDS |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AIFF |
All India Football Federation |
| AIIMS |
All India Institute of Medical Science |
| AIR |
All India Radio, state owned radio stations, Annual Information Report |
| AISATS |
Air India SATS Airport Services Private Limited |
| AITUC |
All India Trade Union Congress |
| AJT |
Advanced Jet Trainer |
| ALGOL |
Algebric Oriented Language |
| AM |
Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation |
| ANC |
African National Council |
| AP |
Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh |
| APEC |
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APEDA |
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority |
| ARC |
Administrative Reforms Commission; Asset Reconstruction Corporation (of India) |
| ARPANET |
Advanced Research Project Agency Network |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASEAN |
Association of South East Asian Nations |
| ASI |
Archaeological Survey of India |
| ASLV |
Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| AT&T |
American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd. |
| ATC |
Air Traffic Control |
| ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
| AU |
African Union |
| AVES |
Acute Viral Encephalitic Syndrome |
| AVJM |
Anusheelan Vaichariki Jan Madhyam |
| AVSM |
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal |
| B |
Bangalore |
| B2B |
Busines to Business |
| B2C |
Business to Consumer |
| BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
| BASI |
Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBS |
Bulletin Board Service |
| BC |
Before Christ |
| BCCI |
Board of Cricket Control in India |
| BCG |
Bacillus Calmette Guerin (Anti-T.B. vaccine) |
| BG |
Broad Gauge (trains or tracks (5ft. 6in.the broadest in the world) |
| BHEL |
Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd |
| BIMSTEC |
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic Corporation |
| BIOS |
Basic Input Output System |
| BIS |
Bureau of Indian Standards |
| BIT |
Binary Digit |
| BJP |
Bharatiya Janata Party, national political party, rightwing, pro-Hindu |
| BOAC |
British Overseas Airways Corporation |
| BPL |
Below Poverty Line |
| BPO |
Business Process Outsourcing |
| BPR |
Business Process Re-engineering |
| bps |
bytes per second |
| BREAD |
Basic Research Education and Development Society |
| BSE |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
| BSF |
Border Security Force |
| BSNL |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
| BSP |
Bahujan Samaj Party, political party, promotes lower caste interests |
| BVR |
Beyond Visual Range |
| C |
Chennai |
| C2C |
Consumer to Consumer |
| CA |
Chartered Accountant |
| CABE |
Central Advisory Board of Education |
| CACCI |
Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce & Industry |
| CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
| CADP |
Command Area Development Programme |
| CAS |
Conditional Access System |
| CAT |
Common Admission Test |
| CBI |
Central Bureau of Investigation (like American FBI) |
| CBSE |
Central Board of Secondary Education |
| CCI |
Cricket Club of India |
| 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 |
| CHOGM |
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.A.) |
| CID |
Criminal Investigation Department |
| CII |
Confederation fo Indian Industry |
| CISC |
Complex instruction-set computing |
| CITU |
Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
| CM |
Chief Minister |
| CMP |
Common Minimum Programme |
| CNG |
Compressed Natural Gas |
| CNLU |
Chanakya National Law University |
| CNN |
Cable News Network |
| CNPC |
China National Petroleum Corporation |
| COJS |
Centre of Jaina Studies |
| COMSAT |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
| COPRA |
Consumer Protection Act |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPI |
Communist Party of India (historically aligned to Russian party) |
| CPI (M) |
Communist Party of India (Marxist), historically aligned to Chinese party |
| CPI (ML) |
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) |
| CPWD |
Central Public Works Department |
| CRIS |
Centre for Railway Information System |
| CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSRI |
Conference on the Study of Religions of India |
| CSTO |
Collective Security Treaty Organisation |
| 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 |
| DA |
Dearness Allowance, paid to compensate for inflation |
| DAE |
Department of Atomic Energy |
| DC |
Direct Current |
| DD |
Doordarshan, state-owned television channel |
| DDT |
Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloro-ethane |
| DIAS |
Direct Internet Access System |
| DIG |
Deputy Inspector General |
| DK |
Dravida Kazhagam |
| DLitt |
Doctor of Literature |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
| DMK |
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| DMRC |
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation |
| DNA |
Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid |
| DOART |
Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting Technology |
| DoT |
Department of Telecommunications |
| DPP |
Dabhol Power Project |
| DRD |
Defence Research and Development |
| DRDO |
Defence Research and Development Organisation |
| DTP |
Desktop Publishing |
| DVC |
Damodar Valley Corporation |
| DVD |
Digital Versatile/Video Disc |
| E & OE |
Errors and Omissions Excepted |
| E-MAIL |
Electronic Mailing |
| EAS |
East Asia Summit |
| ECIL |
Electronics Corporation of India Limited |
| EDCIL |
Educational Consultants India Ltd. |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange, Educational Development Index |
| EDUSAT |
Education Satellite |
| EEC |
Eurasian Economic Community; European Economic Community |
| EET |
Exempt, Exempt, Taxable |
| EIS |
Executive Information System |
| EJVS |
Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies |
| EMI |
Equated Monthly Installments |
| EMU |
Electric Multiple Unit |
| 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 |
| EPIC |
Elector’s Photo Identity Card |
| ERNET |
Educational and Research Network |
| ESCAP |
Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (This is the new name of ECAFE) |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FBT |
Fringe Benefit Tax |
| FBTR |
Fast Breeder Test Reactor |
| FBW |
Fly-By-Wire |
| FC |
Forward Caste |
| FCI |
Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India |
| FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment |
| FEMA |
Foreign Exchange Management Act |
| FICA |
Federation of International Cricketer’s Association |
| 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, Finance Minister |
| FRCP |
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians |
| FRCS |
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
| FRS |
Fellow of the Royal Society |
| FTA |
Free Trade Agreement |
| 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 |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
| GIC |
General Insurance Corporation (of India) |
| GIST |
Global Institute of Science and Technology |
| GMAT |
Graduate Management Admission Test |
| GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNP |
Gross National Product |
| GOI |
Government of India |
| GSLV |
Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, Geostationary Launch Vehicle |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
| GSP |
Generalised System Preference |
| GUAM |
Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HAL |
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. |
| HC |
High Court |
| HCAC |
Hindu-Christian Studies Academic Discussion List |
| HDFC |
Housing Development Finance Corporation |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HMI |
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute |
| HP |
Himachal Pradesh |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HUDCO |
Housing and Urban Development Corporation |
| HVAC |
Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning |
| HYD |
Hyderabad |
| i.e. |
id est (that is) |
| IA |
Indian Airlines |
| IAAI |
International Airport Authority of India |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAF |
Indian Air Force |
| IARI |
Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| IAS |
Indian Administrative Service, Indian Academy of Science |
| IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
| IBM |
International Business Machines |
| IBSA |
India, Brazil, South Africa |
| ICAR |
Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| ICRC |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
| ICRIER |
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations |
| ICSE |
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education |
| ICSID |
International Centre for Settlement of Industrial Disputes |
| ICSSR |
Indian Council of Scientific and Social Research |
| ICU |
Intensive Care Unit |
| ICWA |
Indian Council of World Affairs |
| IDA |
International Development Agency, International Development Association |
| IDBI |
Industrial Development Bank of India |
| IDPL |
Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers |
| IELTS |
International English Language Testing System |
| IESHR |
Indian Economic and Social History Review |
| IFC |
Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation |
| IFPRI |
International Food Policy Research Institute (Located in Washington) |
| IFS |
Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service |
| IFWJ |
Indian Federation of Working Journalists |
| IGCAR |
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research |
| IGMDP |
Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme |
| IGNCA |
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts |
| IGNOU |
Indira Gandhi National Open University |
| IHQ |
Indian Historical Quarterly |
| IHTT |
Institute of Handloom and Textile Technology |
| IIApN |
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Newsletter |
| IIFA |
International Indian Film Academy |
| IIM |
Indian Institute of Management |
| IIPA |
Indian Institute of Public Administration |
| IISCO |
Indian Iron and Steel Company |
| IISS |
International Institute of Strategic Studies |
| IIT |
Indian Institute of Technology |
| IJAA |
Indian Journal of Asian Affairs |
| IJHS |
Indian Journal of History of Science |
| IJJS |
International Journal of Jaina Studies |
| IJMHG |
Indian Journal of Meteorology, Hydrology and Geophysics |
| IJPAP |
Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics |
| IJRSP |
Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics |
| IJTK |
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge |
| IJTS |
International Journal of Tantric Studies |
| ILA |
Indian Library Association |
| ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
| IMAP |
Internet Mail Access Protocol |
| IMD |
India Meteorological Department |
| IMDT |
Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983 |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IMO |
Instant Money Order |
| INA |
Indian National Army |
| InASP |
Indian Academy of Sciences Proceedings |
| InEPS |
Indian Academy of Sciences Proceedings, Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| InES |
Indian Academy of Sciences Proceedings, Engineering Sciences |
| InISA |
Indian Institute of Science - Journal of Aeronomical Society of India |
| InISJ |
Indian Institute of Science Journal |
| InJAE |
Indian Journal of Aerospace Engineering Division |
| InJBB |
Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| InJME |
Indian Journal of Mechanical Engineering Division |
| InJP |
Indian Journal of Physics and Proceedings of the Indian Assocatiation for the Cultivation of Science |
| InJTP |
Indian Journal of Theoretical Physics |
| InMS |
Indian Academy of Sciences Proceedings, Mathematical Sciences |
| INS |
Indian News Paper Society |
| INSAP |
Indian National Science Academy Proceedings Supplement |
| INSAT |
Indian National Satellite |
| INSDOC |
Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre |
| INTACH |
Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage |
| INTUC |
Indian National Trade Union Congress |
| INXFAC |
Indian Naval Extra-Fast Attact Craft |
| IOC |
Indian Oil Corporation |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPC |
Indian Penal Code |
| IPCL |
Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd |
| IPI |
International Press Institute |
| IPKF |
Indian Peace Keeping Force, postioned in a foreign country such as Sri Lanka |
| IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
| IPS |
Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service |
| IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
| IRBM |
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
| IRC |
International Red Cross |
| IRDO |
Integrated Rural Development Organisation |
| IRDP |
Integrated Rural Development Programme |
| IRS |
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, Indian Revenue Service |
| ISBN |
International Standard Book Number |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISI |
Indian Standards Institution, renamed Bureau of Indian Standards; Inter Services Intelligence |
| ISKCON |
International Society for Krishna Consciousness |
| ISO |
International Standards Organisation |
| ISR |
Indian Space Research |
| ISRO |
Indian Space Research Organisation |
| ISSP |
Indian Scientific Satellite Project |
| IST |
Indian Standards Time |
| ITBP |
Indo-Tibetan Border Police |
| ITER |
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
| ITES |
Information Technology Enabled Services |
| ITI |
Indian Telephone Industries, Industrial Training Institute |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
| IUCN |
International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| IUMJ |
Indiana University Mathematics Journal |
| IUPEP |
Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme |
| IVF |
In-Vitro Fertilisation |
| IVM |
In-vitro Maturation |
| JCO |
Junior Commissioned Officer |
| JEE |
Joint Entrance Examination |
| JICPR |
Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research |
| JIH |
Journal of Indian History |
| JIP |
Journal of Indian Philosophy |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Expert Group |
| JVP |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
| LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCA |
Light Combat Aircraft |
| LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display
Least Common Denominator |
| LCM |
Lowest Common Multiple |
| LIBOR |
London Inter Bank Offered Rate |
| LIC |
Life Insurance Corporation (of India) |
| LLB |
Bachelor of Laws |
| LMC |
Large Megallanic Cloud |
| LoC |
Line of Control (between Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Indian-controlled state of Jammu & Kashmir, formerly called the Cease-Fire Line |
| LS |
Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) |
| LSS |
Limited Stop Service |
| LTTE |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| M |
Mumbai |
| m-cap |
(stock) Market Capitalisation |
| M.A. |
Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts) |
| M.D |
Doctor of Medicine |
| MAI |
Multilateral Agreement on Investment |
| MBA |
Master of Business Administration |
| MBBS |
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery |
| MCC |
Marylebone Cricket Club |
| MCI |
Medical Council of India |
| MDMA |
Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency |
| MDMK |
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| MEA |
Ministry of External Affairs |
| MFALA |
Marginal Farmers and Agricultural Labourers Agency |
| MG |
Meter Gauge (trains or tracks), Mangalore |
| 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 |
| MmASI |
Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of India |
| MNC |
Multi-National Corporation |
| MNNA |
Major Non-NATO Alley |
| MODEM |
modulator demodulator |
| MP |
Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh |
| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MRCP |
Member of the Royal College of Physicians |
| MRTPC |
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission |
| MTCR |
Missile Technology Control Regime |
| MVC |
Maha Vir Chakra |
| NAAC |
National Assessment and Accreditation Council |
| NABARD |
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| NADT |
National Authority on Drugs and Therapeutics |
| NAFED |
National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation |
| NALCO |
National Aluminium Company Ltd. |
| NARI |
National AIDS Research Institute |
| 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 |
| NBRA |
National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority |
| NCA |
National Cricket Academy |
| NCERT |
National Council of Educational Research and Training |
| NCHRH |
National Council for Human Resource in Health. |
| NCSA |
National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association |
| NDA |
National Defence Academy, National Democratic Alliance |
| NEA |
National Environment Authority |
| NEGP |
National E-governance Plan |
| NIC |
National Informatics Centre |
| NIC |
National Informatics Centre |
| NIF |
National Innovative Foundation |
| NISM |
National Institute of Securities Market |
| NLLM |
National Legal Literacy Mission |
| NMCC |
National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council |
| NMITLI |
New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative |
| NOC |
No Objection Certificate |
| NOHIC |
Nizamiah JAPAL Rangapur Observatories Hyderabad India Contributions |
| NPA |
Non-performing Assets |
| NPT |
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NRC |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NREGA |
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. |
| NRF |
National Renewal Fund |
| NRHM |
National Rural Health Mission |
| NRI |
Non-Resident Indian |
| NRSA |
National Remote Sensing Agency |
| NSC |
National Savings Certificate |
| NSCN |
National Social Council of Nagaland |
| NSUI |
National Students Union of India |
| NTPC |
National Thermal Power Corporation |
| NUEPA |
National University of Educational Planning and Administration |
| OBC |
Other Backward Classes |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
| OIC |
Overseas Indian Citizenship |
| OIGS |
On Indian Government Service |
| OIL |
Oil India Limited |
| ONGC |
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Oil and Natural Gas Commission |
| OOP |
Object Oriented Programme |
| OPEC |
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OSCAR |
Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio |
| PAC |
Public Accounts Committee; Professional Aptitude Council |
| PAN |
Permanent Account Number (like US Taxpayer Identification Number) |
| PESO |
Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO is the changed name of Department of Explosives). |
| PETA |
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |
| PF |
Provident Fund (vaguely similar to US Social Security, payable as a lump-sum) |
| PFRDA |
Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
| Ph.D. |
Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor) |
| PHDCCI |
Progress, Harmony and Development Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
| PIGS |
Poor Indian Graduate Student |
| PIL |
Public Interest Litigation (brought before a High Court, by a friend of the court) |
| PIL |
Public Interest Litigation |
| PIN |
Postal Index Number |
| PKirO |
Publications of the Kirkwood Observatory of Indiana University |
| PMK |
Pattali Munnetra Kazhagam |
| PNR |
Passenger Numerical Record |
| POSCO |
Pohang Steel Company |
| POTA |
Prevention of Terrorism Act |
| PQWL |
Pooled Quota Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym |
| Prez. |
President |
| PSLV |
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| PSU |
Public Sector Unit (a company whose stock is owned largely by the government) |
| PTC |
Power Trading Corporation |
| PTI |
Press Trust of India |
| PTI |
Press Trust of India, a news agency |
| PWD |
Public Works Department (state civil engineering group handling roads, bridges) |
| QIP |
Qualified Institutional Placement |
| R |
Ratnagiri |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| RAC |
Reservation Against Cancellation, Indian Railways Acronym |
| RADAR |
Radio Detecting and Ranging |
| RAF |
Rapid Action Force |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RAW |
Research & Analysis Wing (similar to US CIA) |
| RBI |
Reserve Bank of India |
| RDX |
Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate) |
| REGRET/WL1 |
No More Booking Permitted, Indian Railways Acronym |
| RISC |
Reduced instruction-set computing |
| RLWL |
Remote Location Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym |
| RNA |
Ribonucleic acid |
| RNRI |
Returned Non Resident Indian, An NRI who has moved to his home country |
| ROM |
Read Only Memory |
| RPM |
Revolutions Per Minute |
| RS |
Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament |
| RSS |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |
| RSVP |
Repondez sil vous Plait (Fr.) reply, if you please |
| RTI |
Right to Information |
| RTRA |
Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority |
| SAARC |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (seven countries of South Asia) |
| SAIL |
Steel Authority of India Limited, a public sector undertaking (PSU) |
| SAPTA |
South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement |
| SARS |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SC |
Supreme Court, the highest court in the country (higher than High Courts), Scheduled Castes |
| SC/ST |
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Harijans or Dalits) |
| SCO |
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation |
| SCRAMJET |
Supersonic Combustion Ramjet |
| SCSI |
Small Computer Systems Interface |
| SEBI |
Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SENSEX |
Sensitivity Index (of Share Price) |
| SEWA |
Self-Employed Women’s Association |
| SEZ |
Special Economic Zone |
| SGPC |
Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee |
| SGRY |
Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana |
| SGSY |
Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana |
| SHCS |
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies |
| SIM |
Subscriber Information Module |
| SIT |
Special Investigation Team |
| SLV |
Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| SMS |
Short Message Service; Subscriber Management System |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNIPES |
Society for the National Institutes of Physical Education and Sports |
| SP |
Samajwadi Party; Samata Party |
| STD |
Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
| SWAPO |
South-West African People’s Organization |
| TADA |
Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act |
| TCP |
Transfer Call Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol |
| TELCO |
Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company |
| TERC |
Trade and Economic Relations Committee |
| TERLS |
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station |
| TFT |
Thin-Film Transistor |
| TIFR |
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| TISCO |
Tata Iron and Steel Company |
| TN |
Tamil Nadu |
| TOEFL |
Test of English as a Foreign Language |
| TRA |
Tea Research Association |
| TRAI |
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India |
| TWAS |
Third World Academy of Sciences |
| UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UDC |
University Development Commission |
| UGC |
University Grants Commission |
| ULFA |
United Liberation Front of Asom |
| UNCLOS |
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference of Trade and Development |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UNI |
United News of India |
| UNICEF |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund') |
| UNIFIL |
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon |
| UNU |
United Nations University |
| UP |
Uttar Pradesh |
| UPA |
United Progressive Alliance |
| UPSC |
Union Public Service Commission |
| UPX |
United Parcel Express |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| VAT |
Value Added Tax |
| VBAL |
Value Based Advanced Licencing |
| VCR |
Video Cassette Recorder |
| VDIS |
Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme |
| VHP |
Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a fundamentalist Hindu party, right of BJP |
| VIP |
Very Important Person |
| VIRUS |
Vital Information Resources Under Siege |
| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modelling Language |
| VRS |
Voluntary Retirement Scheme |
| VSSC |
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre |
| WB |
West Bengal |
| WCAR |
World Conference Against Racism |
| WCCB |
Wildlife Crime Control Bureau |
| WEF |
World Environment Forum |
| WFC |
World Food Council |
| WGIG |
Working Group on Internet Governance |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organisation |
| WLL-M |
Mobile Wireless in Local Loop |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organisation |
| WSIS |
World Summit on Information Society |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
| WWF |
World Wild Life Fund; War Wounded Foundation |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG |
What you see is what you get |
| XML |
Extensible Mark-up Language |
| YMCA |
Young Men’s Christian Association |
| YWCA |
Young Women’s Christian Association |
| ZIP |
Zone Improvement Plan |
| ZS |
Zoological Society |
