Abbreviations & Acronyms - Part 2

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