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 Informa tion Interchange

ASEAN Association of South East Asian Na tions

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

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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 Com puter Aided Design

CAT Common Admis sion Test

CBI Central Bureau of Investigation

CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education

CDAC Centre for the Development of Ad vanced 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

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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

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