Abbreviations to Know

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