Abbreviations and Acronyms List

• AAI ------------ Airports Authority of India

• AICTE ------------ All India Council for Technical Education

• AIDS ------------ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom

• AIIMS ------------ All India Institute of Medical Science

• APEC ------------ Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

• ASCII ------------ American Standard Code for Informa­tion Interchange

• ASEAN ------------ Association of South East Asian Nations

• ATM ------------ Automated Teller Machine

• BIOS ------------ Basic Input Output System

• BEL ------------ Bharat Electronics Limited

• BPO ------------ Business Process Outsourcing

• CDAC ------------ Centre for the Development of Ad­vanced Computing

• CDMA ------------ Code Division Multiple Access

• CPWD ------------ Central Public Works Department

• CTBT ------------ Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

• DNA ------------ Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid

• DRDO ------------ Defence Research and Development Organisation

• DTP ------------ Desktop Publishing

• E-MAIL ------------ Electronic Mailing

• EPABX ------------ Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

• FICCI ------------ Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

• FIR ------------ First Information Report

• GAIL ------------ Gas Authority of India Limited

• GMT ------------ Greenwich Mean Time

• GPRS ------------ General Packet Radio System

• GPS ------------ Global Positioning System

• GSLV ------------ Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

• GSM ------------ Global System for Mobile Communications

• HIV ------------ Human Immunodeficiency Virus

• HTML ------------ Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• IBM ------------ International Business Machines

• IEEE ------------ Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

• IMAX ------------ Image Maximum

• ILO ------------ International Labour Organization

• IP ------------ Internet Protocol

• ISBN ------------ International Standard Book Number

• ISDN ------------ Integrated Services Digital Network

• ISO ------------ International Standards Organization

• ISRO ------------ Indian Space Research Organization

• JPEG ------------ Joint Photographic Experts Group

• LASER ------------ Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

• LCD ------------ Liquid Crystal Display

• MICR ------------ Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

• MODEM ------------ Modulator Demodulator

• MPEG ------------ Motion Picture Experts Group

• NALCO ------------ National Aluminum 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 Organization

• NHPC ------------ National Hydroelectric Power Corporation

• NTPC ------------ National Thermal Power Corporation

• OPEC ------------ Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

• PAN ------------ Permanent Account Number

• PIN ------------ Postal Index Number

• RADAR ------------ Radio Detecting and Ranging

• RAM ------------ Random Access Memory

• SAIL ------------ Steel Authority of India Limited

• SEBI ------------ Securities and Exchange Board of India

• TIN ------------ Tax Information Network

• UGC ------------ University Grants Commission

• UNESCO ------------ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

• UNICEF ------------ United Nations Children's Fund

• URL ------------ Uniform Resource Locator

• VSAT ------------ Very Small Aperture Terminals

• WHO ------------ World Health Organization

• WLL ------------ Wireless in Local Loop

• WWF ------------ World Wildlife Fund

• WWW ------------ World Wide Web

• WYSIWYG ------------ What you see is what you get

• XML ------------ Extensible Mark-up Language

• ZIP ------------ Zone Improvement Plan

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