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A.D. Anno Domini. Used to date years by reckoning the date of Christ’s birth, as opposed to B.C., the years “Before Christ.” Literally, Anno Domini means “In the year of the Lord.” Remember two important notes! Anno Domini does not mean “After Death.” (If it did, there would be a thirty-three year gap between 1…
YMCA Young Men’s Christian Association YWCA Young Women’s Christians Association ZBB Zero Based Budgeting ZIP Zone Improvement Plan ZPG Zero Population Growth ZS Zoological Society ZSl Zoological Survey of India
WEF World Economic Forum WFP World Food Programme WHO World Health Organisation WILL Wireless in Local Loop WMO World Meteorological Organisation WPI Wholesale Price Index 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
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UDC Upper Division Clerk UFO Unidentified Flying Object UGC University Grants Commission UHT Ultra High Temperature ULFA United Liberation Front of Asom UMPP Ultra Mega Power Project UNC United Nagar Council UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEF United Nations Emergency Force UNEP United…
SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAC Space Application Centre SAFTA South Asian Free Trade Agreement SAI Sports Authority of India SAIL Steel Authority of India Limited SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SC Security Council/Supreme Court SCI Shipping Corporation of India SCOPE Standing Conference of Public Enterprises SCRA…
R & D Research and Development R&D Research and Development RADAR Radio Detecting and Ranging RAM Random Access Memory RAW Research & Analysis Wing RBI Reserve Bank of India RCC Reinforced Cement Concrete RDX Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate) RIMC Rashtriya Indian Military College RISC Reduced instruction-set computing RLEGP Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme RMS…
OBC Other Backward Classes OCR Optical Character Recognition OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OGL Open General License OIL Oil India Limited OK All Correct ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation OOP Object Oriented Programme OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio OTR Operational Turn Around PAN Permanent Account…
M.A. Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts) M.D Doctor of Medicine MA Master of Arts MASTER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation MBA Master of Business Administration MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire MBT Main Battle Tank MCA Monetary Compensatory Allowance/Master of Computer Application…
KG Kinder Garten 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 LLM Master of Law LMC Large Megallanic Cloud LMG Light Machine Gun LoAC Line of Actual Control (China) LoC Line…
i.e. id est (that is) IAAI International Airport Authority of India IAC Indian Airlines Corporation IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute IAS Indian Administrative Service IATA International Air Transport Association IBM International Business Machines IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICBM Inter…