Abbreviations

Abbreviations (Full Forms)
HDFC	Housing Development Finance Corporation
ICICI	Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India
ONGC	Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
HSBC	Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
IBP	Indian British Petroleum
IFFCO	Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative
UNICEF	United Nations Children's Fund (it was formerly United Nations International Children's Emergency)
CRY	Child Relief & You
IDBI	Industrial Development Bank of India
BARC	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
MBBS	Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery
PhD	Doctor of Philosophy
SAP	System analysis and program
DLF	Darbari Lal Foundation Limited
GPRS	General Packet Radio Service
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications
CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
IVRS	Interactive Voice Response System
BMW	Bavarian Motor Works
ATM	Automated Teller Machine
AIDS	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AM	Ante Meridian
PM	Post Meridian
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
BPO	Business Process Output
BPL	British Physical Laboratories
LASER	Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
RADAR	Radio Detection and Ranging
CTC	Cost To Company
CT Scan	Computerized Tomography Scan
MRI	MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SIM	Subscriber’s Identification Module
STD	Subscriber Trunk Dialling
ISD	International Subscriber Dialling
PCO	Public Call Office
DHL	Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn
EPABX	Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange
SAARC	South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
USB	Universal Serial Bus
CBSE	Central Board of Secondary Education
CBD Belapur	Central Business District Belapur
USP	Unique Selling Proposal
FMCG	Fast Moving Consumer Goods
FAX	Far Away Xerox, FAX is the shortened form for 'facsimile'
FICCI	Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
VAT	Value Added Tax
GRE	Graduate Record Examination
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
PDF	Portable Document Format
PNR	Passenger Name Record
PhD	Doctor of Philosophy
PING	Packet Internet Groper
PVR	Priya Village Roadshow
NEWS	North,East,West, South
NIFTY	National Stock Exchange's Fifty
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NASSCOM	National Association of Software and Service Companies
NGO	Non Governmental Organisation
NIIT	National Institute of Information Technology
NRI	Non-Resident Indian
MPEG	Moving Picture Experts Group
GIF	Graphic Interchange Format
JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
RSS	Really Simple Syndication
WI-FI	Wireless Fidelity
WWF	World Wildlife Fund
LLP	Limited Liability Partnership
LED	Light Emitting Diode
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
CRT	Cathode Ray Tube
ITC	Imperial Tobacco Company
ESPN	Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
RTO	Regional Transport Office
TDS	Tax Deduction Source
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
IP	Internet Protocol
TOEFL	Test Of English as a Foreign Language
GMAT	Graduate Management Admission Test
GATE	Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
GAIL	Gas Authority of India Limited
SATA	Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
PATA	Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
CIDCO	City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd.
BBC	British Broadcasting Channel
CNN	Cable News Network
CNBC	Consumer News and Business Channel
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript + XML
MIS	Management Information System
MICR	Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
IFSC	Indian Financial System Code
ISI	Indian Standards Institute
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISKCON	International Society for Krishna Consciousness
IRDA	Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
IRCTC	Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation
ICU	Intensive Care Unit
ICCU	Intensive Coronary Care Unit
IDFC	Infrastructure Development Finance Co. Ltd.
IDA	Indian Dental Association
IGNOU	Indira Gandhi National Open University
IL&FS	Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd.
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
POP3	Post Office Protocol
IAS	Indian Administrative Services
IPOD	Intelligent Portable Ocular Device
TISCO	Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd.
CRISIL	Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd.
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
FICO	Fair Isaac Corporation
SQL	Structured Query Language
SEBI	Security Exchange Board of India
SUV	Sport Utility Vehicle
SUN Microsystems	Stanford University Network
SWF	Shock Wave Flash
TCS	Tata Consultancy Services
HCL	Hindustan Computers Limited
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