| fastest revolution in solar system | mercury |
| nearest planet is | mercury |
| smallest planet is | mercury |
| slowest rotation in solar system is | venus |
| morning star | venus |
| evening star | venus |
| brightest planet is | venus |
| red planet | mars |
| planet with red spot | jupiter |
| fastest rotation in solar system | jupiter |
| biggest planet | jupiter |
| slowest revolution in solar system | neptune |
| coldest planet | neptune |
| planet surrounded by five gaint rings | uranus |
| Biggest satellite | ganymede |
| smallest satellite | Deimos |
| Brightest planet outside solar system | Sirius |
| Closest starof solar system | proxima centauri |
Saturday, 30 March 2013
sobriquets(or)Nick names
| Lady with the lamp | Florence Nightingale |
| Grand Old man | Dadabhai Naoroji of India |
| Iron Duke | Duke of Wellington |
| Guru Ji | M.S.Golwalkar |
| England and the English people | John Bull |
| CR | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari |
| King Maker | Earl of Warwick |
| JP | Jayaprakash Naryan |
| Little corporal | Napolean |
| Mahamanya | Pt.Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Maid of Orleans | joan of Arc |
| Desh Bandhu | C.R.Das |
| Deen Bandhu | C.F.Andrews |
| Yankee | Inhabitants of U.S.A |
| Sher-i-punjab | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Bard of Avon | Shakespeare |
| Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Man of Blood | Bismark |
| Andhra Kesri | T.prakasam |
| Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Bapu | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Apostle of Free Trade | RichardCobden |
| Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Desert Fox | Gen.Rommel |
| Nightingle of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Father of English poetry | Geoffery chaucer |
| Feuhrer | Hitler |
| Iron Man | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Ike | Gen.Eisenhower |
| Tomy Atkins | English Soldier |
| Jawan | Indian Soldier |
| poolu | French Soldier |
| Vizzy | Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagara |
| G.I. | American Soldier |
| Wizard of the North | Sir Walter Scot |
| Samuel CLemens | Mark Twain |
| Sparrow | Major Gen.Rajender Singh |
| Shastriji | LalBahadur Shastri |
| Babuji | Jagjiwan Ram |
| Osho | Acharya Rajneesh |
| Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
| Alfered Hitchcock | Master if Suspence |
| Andrei D.Sakharov | Father of the Hyderogen Bomb |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Father of unrest |
| Bhagat Singh | Shahid-e-Azam |
| C.Rajagopalachari | C.R.Rajaji |
| C.N.Annadurai | Anna |
| Dadaabhai Naoroji | Father of Indian Politics and Economics |
| dadasaheb phalke | Father of Indian Cinema |
| Eivis presley | Elvis the Pelvis |
| Ernest Rutherford | Father of Nuclear Physics |
| Erwin Rammel | Desert Fax |
| Geoffrey chaucer | Father of English Poetry |
| Gorge Bernard Show | G.B.S |
| Giovanni Baccaccio | Father of the Novel |
| Gurcharan Singh | Ground old Man of Indian Poettery,Daddyji |
| Henrik J.Ibsen | Father of Modern Drama |
| Herodotus | Father of history |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Homi J. Bhabha | Father of Indian Nuclear Science |
| Indira Gandhi | Iron Lady of India |
| J.R.D.Tata | father of civil aviation in india |
| Jamshedji tata | Father of Indian Inhustry |
| joseph priestley | Father of Modern chemistry |
| K.M.Cariappa Kipper | Grand old man of Indian Army |
| K.V.Puttappa | Kuvempu |
| Kalidas | Indian Shakespeare,shakespeare of India |
| Kato Ichire | Dr.Robot |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | frantier Gandhi,fakhre-e Afghan |
| M.F.Robespierre | The Incorruptible |
| M.K.Gandhi | Bapu,Father of the Natio |
| M.S.Golwalkar | Guruji |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | Mahamana |
| Nandlal Base | Father of Modern Painting in India |
| Napoleaon Bonaparte Little Corporol | Man of Density |
| tto Von Bismarck | Man of Blood and Iron |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Maiden Queen |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Gurudev |
| Raja Rammohan Roy | Father of Indian Renaissance |
| Richard Cobden | Apostle of free Trade |
| SamudraGupta | Indian Napoleaon |
| S.Sathyamurthi | Firebrand of South India |
| Sarojini Naidu | Nightingale of India |
| Shakti Chattapadhyaya | Robert Frost of West Bengal |
| Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah | Lion of Kashmir (sher-e-Kashmir) |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | BangaBandhu |
| St.Nicholas | Santa Claus |
| Susruta | Father of Modern Plastic Surgery |
| T .T.Krishnamachari | T.T.K. |
| Tenzing Norgay | Tiger of Snows |
| Thomas Cook | Father of Modern Tourism |
| Thomas Edward Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Grand Old Man of Indian Journalism |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Iron man of India,Mismarck of India |
| Vinoba Bhave | Acharya |
| V.M.Basheer | Sultan of Beypore |
| Walter Scott | Wizard of the North |
| Willliam Ewart Gladstone | Grand Old Man of British Politics |
| William Pitt The Younger Pitt | Grand Commoner |
cities on the river side
| Alexandria | Egypt | Nile |
| Amsterdam | Netherlands | Amstel |
| Adelaide | Australia | Torrens |
| Ankara | Turkey | Kazil |
| Allahabad | India | At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna |
| Agra | India | Yamuna |
| Ayodhya | India | Saryu |
| Ahmedabad | India | Sabarmati |
| Bangkok | Thailand | Chao Praya |
| Basra | Iraq | Euphrates and Tigris |
| Baghdad | Iraq | Tigris |
| Bonn | Germany | Rhine |
| Bristol | U. K. | Avon |
| Baghdad | Iraq | Tigris |
| Belgrade | Yugoslavia | Danube, Sava |
| Berlin | Germany | Spree, Havel |
| Bogotá | Colombia | Bogotá |
| Brussels | Belgium | Senne |
| Budapest | Hungary | Danube |
| Buenos Aires | Argentina | Río de la Plata |
| Cairo | Egypt | Nile |
| Calcutta | India | Hugli |
| Cuttack | India | Mahanadi |
| Chittagong | Bangladesh | Majyani |
| Canton | China | Si-Kiang |
| Cairo | Egypt | Nile |
| Chung King | China | Yang-tse-King |
| Cologne | Germany | Rhine |
| Damascus | Syria | Barada |
| Delhi | India | Yamuna |
| Dublin | Ireland | LIffey |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | Saigon |
| Hong Kong | China | Pearl |
| Jakarta | Indonesia | Liwung |
| Kiev | Ukraine | Dnieper |
| Lisbon | Portugal | Tagus |
| Lima | Peru | Rímac |
| London | England | Thames |
| Madrid | Spain | Manzanares |
| Melbourne | Australia | Yarra |
| Montreal | Canada | St. Lawrence |
| Moscow | Russia | Moskva |
| Paris | France | Seine |
| Prague | Czech Republic | Moldau |
| Rome | Italy | Tiber |
| Saint Petersburg | Russia | Neva |
| Santiago | Chile | Mapocho |
| São Paulo | Brazil | Tietê |
| Seoul | South Korea | Han |
| Shanghai | China | Huangpu |
| Tokyo | Japan | Sumida |
| Vienna | Austria | Danube |
| Warsaw | Poland | Vistula |
| Zagreb | Croatia | Sava |
| Zürich | Switzerland | Limmat, Sihl |
ranks
| Army | AirForce | Navy |
|---|---|---|
| General | Air Chief Marshal | Admiral |
| Lt.General | Air Marshal | Vice Admiral |
| Major General | Air Vice Marshal | Rear Admiral |
| Brigader | Air Commodore | Commodore |
| Colonel | Group Captain | Captain |
| Lt.Colonel | Wing Commander | Commander |
| Major | Squadron Leader | Lt.Commander |
| Captain | Flt.Lieutenant | Lieutenant |
| Lieutenant | Flying Officer | Sub-Lieutenant |
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
popular names
| Lady with the lamp | Florence Nightingale |
| Grand Old man | Dadabhai Naoroji of India |
| Iron Duke | Duke of Wellington |
| Guru Ji | M.S.Golwalkar |
| England and the English people | John Bull |
| CR | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari |
| King Maker | Earl of Warwick |
| JP | Jayaprakash Naryan |
| Little corporal | Napolean |
| Mahamanya | Pt.Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Maid of Orleans | joan of Arc |
| Desh Bandhu | C.R.Das |
| Deen Bandhu | C.F.Andrews |
| Yankee | Inhabitants of U.S.A |
| Sher-i-punjab | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Bard of Avon | Shakespeare |
| Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Man of Blood | Bismark |
| Andhra Kesri | T.prakasam |
| Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Bapu | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Apostle of Free Trade | RichardCobden |
| Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Desert Fox | Gen.Rommel |
| Nightingle of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Father of English poetry | Geoffery chaucer |
| Feuhrer | Hitler |
| Iron Man | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| Ike | Gen.Eisenhower |
| Tomy Atkins | English Soldier |
| Jawan | Indian Soldier |
| poolu | French Soldier |
| Vizzy | Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagara |
| G.I. | American Soldier |
| Wizard of the North | Sir Walter Scot |
| Samuel CLemens | Mark Twain |
| Sparrow | Major Gen.Rajender Singh |
| Shastriji | LalBahadur Shastri |
| Babuji | Jagjiwan Ram |
| Osho | Acharya Rajneesh |
| Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
| Alfered Hitchcock | Master if Suspence |
| Andrei D.Sakharov | Father of the Hyderogen Bomb |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Father of unrest |
| Bhagat Singh | Shahid-e-Azam |
| C.Rajagopalachari | C.R.Rajaji |
| C.N.Annadurai | Anna |
| Dadaabhai Naoroji | Father of Indian Politics and Economics |
| dadasaheb phalke | Father of Indian Cinema |
| Eivis presley | Elvis the Pelvis |
| Ernest Rutherford | Father of Nuclear Physics |
| Erwin Rammel | Desert Fax |
| Geoffrey chaucer | Father of English Poetry |
| Gorge Bernard Show | G.B.S |
| Giovanni Baccaccio | Father of the Novel |
| Gurcharan Singh | Ground old Man of Indian Poettery,Daddyji |
| Henrik J.Ibsen | Father of Modern Drama |
| Herodotus | Father of history |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Homi J. Bhabha | Father of Indian Nuclear Science |
| Indira Gandhi | Iron Lady of India |
| J.R.D.Tata | father of civil aviation in india |
| Jamshedji tata | Father of Indian Inhustry |
| joseph priestley | Father of Modern chemistry |
| K.M.Cariappa Kipper | Grand old man of Indian Army |
| K.V.Puttappa | Kuvempu |
| Kalidas | Indian Shakespeare,shakespeare of India |
| Kato Ichire | Dr.Robot |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | frantier Gandhi,fakhre-e Afghan |
| M.F.Robespierre | The Incorruptible |
| M.K.Gandhi | Bapu,Father of the Natio |
| M.S.Golwalkar | Guruji |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | Mahamana |
| Nandlal Base | Father of Modern Painting in India |
| Napoleaon Bonaparte Little Corporol | Man of Density |
| tto Von Bismarck | Man of Blood and Iron |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Maiden Queen |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Gurudev |
| Raja Rammohan Roy | Father of Indian Renaissance |
| Richard Cobden | Apostle of free Trade |
| SamudraGupta | Indian Napoleaon |
| S.Sathyamurthi | Firebrand of South India |
| Sarojini Naidu | Nightingale of India |
| Shakti Chattapadhyaya | Robert Frost of West Bengal |
| Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah | Lion of Kashmir (sher-e-Kashmir) |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | BangaBandhu |
| St.Nicholas | Santa Claus |
| Susruta | Father of Modern Plastic Surgery |
| T .T.Krishnamachari | T.T.K. |
| Tenzing Norgay | Tiger of Snows |
| Thomas Cook | Father of Modern Tourism |
| Thomas Edward Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Grand Old Man of Indian Journalism |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Iron man of India,Mismarck of India |
| Vinoba Bhave | Acharya |
| V.M.Basheer | Sultan of Beypore |
| Walter Scott | Wizard of the North |
| Willliam Ewart Gladstone | Grand Old Man of British Politics |
| William Pitt The Younger Pitt | Grand Commoner |
Geographical Discoveries
| America | Christopher Columbus |
| Sea route to India Via Cape of Good Hope | Vasco-de-Gama |
| Solar System | Copernicus |
| Planets | Kepler |
| South Pole | Amundsen(Norwegian) |
| North Pole | Robert Peary |
| China | Marco polo |
| New Foundland | Gobot Sebastian |
| Hudson Bay | Henry Hudson |
| Sailor of the World | Magellan |
| Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary |
| First Person to set foot on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Tasmania island | Tasman |
| Cape of Good Hope | Baurtho Romeiodeis |
| West Indies &South America | Columbus |
First in India
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| The first President of Indian Republic | Dr.Rajendra Prasad |
| The First Prime Minister of Free India | Pt.Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| The First Indian to Win Nobel prize | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The first President of Indian National Congress | W.C.Banerjee |
| The First Muslim President of India | Dr.Zakir Hussain |
| The First British Governor General of India | Lord William Bentinck |
| The First British Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| The First Governor General of free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| The First Man Who Introduced Printing Press in India | James Hicky |
| The First Indian to join the I.C.S | Satyendera Nath Tagore |
| First Indian In Space | Rakesh Sharma |
| The First woman I.P.S Officer | Mrs.Kiran Bedi |
| The First Indian Commander-in-chief of India | General cariappa |
| The First Chief of Army Staff | Gen.Maharaj Rajendra Singhji |
| The First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F.Manekshaw |
| The First Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics | C.V.Raman |
| The First Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award | Dr.RadhaKrishnan |
| The First Indian to Cross English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The First person to receive jnanpith award | Sri Shankar Kurup |
| The First Speaker of the Loksabha | Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar |
| The First Vice-President of India | Dr.RadhaKrishnan |
| The First Education Minister | Abdul Kalam Azad |
| The First Home Minister of India | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel |
| The First Indian Air Chief Marshal | S.Mukherjee |
| The First Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral | R.D.Katari |
| The First judge of International Court of Justice | Dr.Nagendra Singh |
| The First Person to Receive paramveer Chakra | Major Somnath Sharma |
| The First CHief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| The First Person to receive Magsaysay Award | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| The First Chinese Traveller to Vist India | Fahein |
| The First Person to receive Stalin prize | Saifuddin Kitchlu |
| The First Foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| The First Person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics | Amartya sen |
| The First Chief Justice of SUpreme Court justice | Hiralal J.Kania |
| The First lady to become Miss World | Rita faria |
| The First Woman Ambassador | Miss C.B.Muthamma |
| The First Woman Prime Minister | Mrs.Indira Gandhi |
| The First Woman to Climb mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| The First Woman chairman of UPSC | Roze Millam Bethew |
| The first Woman DGP | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| The First Woman Lieutenent General | Puneeta Arora |
| The First Woman Air Vice Marshal | P.Bandopadhyaya |
| The First woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| The first woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| The First Woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| The First Woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs.Indira Gandhi |
| The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The First Woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| The First Woman ChairPerson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| The First woman chief justice of a High Court | Mrs.Leela Seth |
| The first and the last Muslim Woman rular of Delhi | Razia Sultan |
| The First Woman judge in Supreme court | Mrs.meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| The First woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs.Sarojini naidu |
| The First Indian Member of the Viceroy's Executive council | S.P.Sinha |
| The First woman chief Minister of a Indian State | Mrs.Sucheta Kriipalani |
| The First Woman President of the Indian National Congress | Mrs.Annie Besant |
| The First Person to resign from the central cabinet | Shyam Prasad Mukherjee |
| The First Person to Reach Mt.Everest with out Oxygen | Sherpa Anga Dorjee |
| The First Muslim President of Indian National Congress | Badruddin Tayyabji |
| The First Indian Origin to Recive Nobel Prize In Medicine | Hargovinda Khurana |
| The First President of the India who died while in office | Dr.Zakir Hussain |
| The Frist Prime Minister of India who did not face the parliament | charan singh |
| The First and the Last Indian to be Governor General of Free India | C.Rajgopalachari |
| The First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly | Mrs.Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| The first Prime Minster of India who Resigned with out Completing the full term | Moraji Desai |
First In the world
| The First person to reach Mount Everest | Sherpa Tenzing,Edmund Hillary |
| The First person to reach North pole | RobertPeary |
| The First person to reach South pole | Amundsen |
| The First religion of the world | Hinduism |
| The First country to print book | China |
| The First country to issue paper currency | China |
| The First Country to commence competitive examination in Civil services | China |
| The First President of the U.S.A | George Washington |
| The First Prime Minister of Britian | Robert Walpole |
| The First Gover General of the United Nations | Trigveli(Norway) |
| The First country to win football Worldcup | Uruguay |
| The First country to prepare a constitution | U.S.A |
| The First Governor General of Pakistan | Mohd.Ali Jinnah |
| The First country to host NAM summit | Belgrade(Yugoslavia) |
| The First European to attack India | Alexander The Great |
| The First European to reach China | Marco Polo |
| The First person to fly aeroplane | Wright Brothers |
| The First person to Sail round the World | Magellan |
| The First Country to Send man to moon | U.S.A |
| The First Country to launch Artificial satellite in the Space | Russia |
| The First Country to host the modern Olympics | Greece |
| The First city on which the atom Bomb was dropped | Hiroshima(Japan) |
| The First Person to land on the moon | Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E.Aldrin |
| The First Shuttle go in Space | Columbia |
| The First Spacecraft to reach mars | Viking-I |
| The First Women Prime Minister of England | Margaret Thatcher |
| The First Muslim Prime Minister of a country | Benazir Bhutto(Pakistan) |
| The First woman Prime Minister of a country | Mrs S.Bandamaike (Sri Lanka) |
| The First Woman to climb Mount Everest | Mrs.Junko Tabei(Japan) |
| The First Woman cosmonaut of the world | Velentina Tereshkova(Russia) |
| The First Woman President of the U.N. General Assembly | vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| The First man to fly into space | Yuri Gagarin (Russia) |
| The First Batsman to Score three test century in three successive tests on debut | Mohd.Azharuddin |
| The First man to climbed Mount everest tiwice | Nawang Gombu |
| The First U.S. President to resign Presidency | Richard Nixon |
s
| SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
| SAMEER | Society for Applied Microwave Electronic Engineering and Research |
| SAC | Space Application Center |
| 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 Respiratiory Syndrome |
| SC | Security Council |
| SC | Supreme Court |
| SCI | Shipping corporation of India |
| SCOPE | Standing Conference of Public Enterprises |
| SCRA | Special Class Railway Apprentice |
| SDR | Special Drawing Rights |
| SEBI | Security Exchange Board of India |
| SGPC | Siromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee |
| SHAR | Shri Harikota Range |
| SIDBI | Small Industries Development Bank of India |
| SIS | Secret Intelligence Service |
| SITA | Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girl Act |
| SLV | Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| SPCA | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals |
| SPIC MACAY | Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture |
| STARS | Satellite Tracking and Ranging System |
| STD | Subsccribers Trunk Dialing |
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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| TA | Travelling Allowance |
| TA | Territorial Army |
| TELCO | Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company |
| TELEX | TelePrinter Exchange |
| TISCO | Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited |
| TNT | Tri-nitro-toluene |
| TOEFL | Test of English as a Foreign Language |
| TRAI | Telecom Regulatory Authority of India |
| TRIPS | Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights |
| TTE | Travelling Ticket Examiner |
| TTFI | Table Tennis Federation of India |
| TWA | Trans World Airlines (USA) |
O
| OGL | Open General Licence |
| OIL | Oil India Limited |
| ONGC | Oil and NAtural Gas Commission |
| OPEC | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
w
| WEF | World Economic forum |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WILL | Wireless in localLoop |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
| WWF | World Life Fund |
| WPI | Wholesale Price Index |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |
| WWF | World Wild Life Fund for Nature |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
y
| YMCA | Young Men Christians Association |
| YWCA | Young Women christians Association |
z
| ZSI | zoological Survey of India |
| ZBB | ZeroBasedBudgeting |
r
| RADAR | Radio Angle Direction and Range |
| RAW | Research and Analysis Wing |
| R & D | Research and Development |
| RBI | Reserve Bank OF India |
| RCC | Reinforced Cement Concrete |
| RDX | Research Developed Explosive |
| RIMC | Rashtriya Indian Military College |
| RMS | Railway Mail Service |
| RLEGP | Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute |
| RSS | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |
| RTO | Regional Transport Officer |
u
| UDC | Upper Division Clerk |
| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object |
| UGC | University Grants Commission |
| ULFA | United Liberation Front of Assam |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Economic Social and cultural Organisation |
| UNFPA | United Nations for Population Activities |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
| UNI | United News of News of India |
| UNICEF | United Nations International Childern's Emergency Fund |
| UNO | United Nations Organisation |
| UPS | Uninterrupted Power Supply |
| UPSC | Union Public Service Commission |
| USP | Unique Selling Proposition |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Scocialist Republic |
| UTI | Unit Trust of India |
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| VAT | Value Added Tax |
| VDIS | Voluntary DIsclosure of Income Scheme |
| VC | Vice-chancellor |
| VC | VIcoria cross |
| VIP | Very Important Person |
| VPP | Value payable Post |
| VRS | Voluntart Retirement Scheme |
| VSNL | Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited |
| VSSC | Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre |
Abbrevations of N
| NABARD | National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development |
| NACO | National AIDS Control Organisation |
| NAEP | National Adult Education programme |
| NAFED | National Agricultural and Marketing Federation |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration(USA) |
| NASDAQ | National Association of Seurity Dealer's Active Quotation |
| NASSCOM | National Association of software and service companies |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| NCW | National Commission for women |
| NCERT | National Council of Educational Research and Training |
| NMITLI | New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative |
| NDA | NAtional Defence Academy |
| NDDB | National Dairy Development Board |
| NDF | National Defence Fund |
| NEERI | National Environment Engineering Research Institute |
| NEFA | North-East Frontier Agency |
| NEPA | National Environment Protection Authority |
| NFDC | National Film Development corporation |
| NFL | National Fertilizer Limited |
| NHRC | National human Rights Commission |
| NIDC | National Industrial Development corporation |
| NIIT | National Institute of Information Technology |
| NIMHANS | National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences |
| NITIE | National Institute for Training in Industrial engineering |
| NIMS | National Institute of Medical Statistics |
| NMDS | National Missile Defence System |
| NMEP | National Malaria Eradication Programme |
| NOIDA | New Okhla Industrial Development Authority |
| NPC | National Productivity Council |
| NPP | National Population policy |
| NPHEC | National Programme for the Health Care of Elderly |
| NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NRDC | National Research and Development Corporation |
| NREP | National Rural Employment Programme |
| NRI | Non Resident of India |
| NSC | National Security Council |
| NSSO | National Sample Survey Organisation |
| NTC | National Textile Corporation |
| NTPC | National Thermal Power Corporation |
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| PCI | Press Council of India |
| PCS | Provincial Civil Services |
| Ph.D | Doctor of Philosophy |
| PIN | Postal Index Number |
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organisation |
| PM | Post Meridian |
| PM | Prime Minister |
| POTA | Prevention of Terrorism Act |
| PSLV | Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| PRO | Public Relations Officer |
| PTO | Please Turn Over |
| PVC | Poly Vinyl Chloride |
| PVC | Paramvir Chakra |
| PVSM | Param Vishisht Seva Medal |
| PWD | Public Worl's Department |
| PWG | People's War Group |
L
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LIC | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| LLB | Bachelor of Law |
| LLM | Mater of Law |
| LMG | Light Machine Gun |
| Loc | Line of Control(Pakistan) |
| LoAC | Line of Actual Control(china) |
| LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
| LSD | Lysergic acid di-ethylamide |
| LTTE | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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| MA | Master of Arts |
| MASER | Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission Radiation |
| MBA | Master of Business Administration |
| MBBS | Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery |
| MBT | Main Battle Tank |
| MCA | Monetary Compensatory Allowance |
| MCA | Master of Computer Application |
| MCC | Melbourne Cricket Club |
| MD | Doctor if Medicine |
| MFN | Most Favoured Nation |
| MI | Military Intelligence |
| MISA | Maintenance of Internal Security Act |
| MIT | Mechachusates Institute of Technology |
| MLA | Member of Legislative Assembly |
| MLC | Member of Legislative Council |
| MNC | Multi National Corporation |
| MRCP | Member of Royal college of Physicians |
| MRCS | Member of Roayl college of Surgeons |
| MRTPC | Monopoly and Restictive Trade Practices Commission |
| MODVAT | Modified Valuve Added Tax |
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| IAAI | International Airport Authority of India |
| IAC | Indian Airlines Corporation |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IARI | Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| IBRD | International Banl for Reconstruction and Development |
| ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| ICBM | Inter Continental Ballistic Missile |
| ICC | International Cricket Council |
| ICICI | Industrial Credit and Investment corporation of India Limited |
| ICIJ | International Consortium Investigative Journalists |
| ICJ | International Court of Justice |
| ICSI | Indian company secretaries Institute |
| IDA | International Development Agency |
| IDBI | Industrial Development Bank of India |
| IDPL | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited |
| IDPs | Internally Displaced Persons |
| IFA | Indian Football Association |
| IFCI | Industrial Finance corporation of India |
| IFFI | International Flim Festival of India |
| IFFCO | Indian Framers Fertilizers Cooperative |
| IFTU | International Federation of Trade Unions |
| IIPA | Indian Institute of Public Administration |
| IIS | Indian Institute of Sciences |
| IISCO | Indian Iron and Steel company |
| IIT | Indian Institute of Technology |
| ILO | International Labour Organisation |
| IMA | Indian Military Academy |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INS | Indian Naval Ship |
| INSAT | Indian National Satellite |
| INTERPOL | International police Organisation |
| INTUC | Indian National Traade Union Congress |
| IOC | International Olympic Committe |
| IOC | Indian Oil Corporation |
| IPC | Indian Penal Code |
| IPKF | Indian peace Keeping Force |
| IQ | Intelligence Quotien |
| IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
| IRC | International Red cross |
| IRDA | Insurence Regulatory Development Authority |
| IRDP | Integrated Rural Development Programme |
| ISB | Indian Standard Bureau |
| ISM | Indian School of Mines |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
| ISP | Internet Services Provider |
| ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
| IST | Indian Standard Time |
| ITBP | Indo-Tibet Border Police |
| ITDC | Indian Tourism Development Corporation |
| ITPO | Indian Trade Promotion Organisation |
| ITO | International Trade Organisation |
| ITUC | Indian Trade Union Congress |
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| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation(USA) |
| FBTR | Fast Breeder Test Reactor |
| FCI | Food Corporation of India |
| FCI | Fertilizer Corporation of India |
| FDR | Flight Data Recorder |
| FERA | Foreign Exchange Regulation Act |
| FEMA | Foreign Exhange Management Act |
| FICCI | Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry |
| FIPB | Foreign Investment Promotion Board |
| FIR | First Information Report |
| FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| FTZ | Free Trade Zone |
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| GAIL | Gas Authority of India Limited |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariff and Trade |
| GIC | General Insurrance Corporation |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNP | Gross National Product |
| GPF | General Provident Fund |
| GPO | General Post Office |
| GPS | Global Positioniing System |
| GSI | Geological Survey of India |
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| HAC | Hindustan Aluminium Corporation |
| HAL | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited |
| HCF | Highest common Factor |
| HDFC | Housing Development Finance Corporation |
| HIV | Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus |
| HMT | Hindustan Machine Tools |
| HUDCO | Housing and Urban Development corporation |
| HYVS | High Yield Variety |
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| CAD | Command Area development |
| CARE | Cooperative for American Relief EveryWhere |
| CAT | Central Administrative Tribunal |
| CAT | Computerised Axial Tomography |
| CAZRI | Central Arid Zone Research Institute |
| CBI | Central Bureau of Investigation |
| CBSE | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| CCEA | Cabinet Committe on Economic Affairs |
| CCS | Cabinet Committe on Security |
| C-DAC | Centre For Development of Advance Computing |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDRI | Central Drug Research Institute |
| CDS | Compulsory Deposit Scheme |
| CHOGM | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting |
| CID | Criminal Investigation Department |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CICS | Centre for International Co-operation in Science |
| CISF | Central Industrial Security Force |
| CIPET | Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology |
| CITU | Centre of Indian Trade Unions |
| CNG | Compressed Natural Gas |
| COD | Central Ordnance Depot |
| COFEPOSA | Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act |
| CPO | Central Passport Organisation |
| CPRI | Central Power Research Institute |
| CRPF | Central Reserve Police Force |
| CRR | Cash Reserve Ratio |
| CSIR | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSO | Central Statistical Organisation |
| CTS | Computerised Tomography Organisation |
| CTRI | Clinical Trials Registry- India |
| CVC | Central Vigilance Commission |
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| DDT | Dichloro Diphenyle Tri-Chloroethane |
| DEITY | Department of Electronics and Information Technology |
| DFDR | Digital Flight Data Recorder(Black Box) |
| DIG | Deputy Inspector General |
| D.Lit | Doctor of Literature |
| DM | District Magistrate |
| DMK | Dravida Munetra Kazhagam |
| DNA | Di-oxyribo-Nucleic Acid |
| DPAP | Drought Prone Area Programme |
| DPC | Dabhol Power Company |
| DPSA | Deep Penetration Strike Aircraft |
| DRDO | Defence Research and Development Organisation |
| DTH | Direct to Home |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disk |
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| EAS | Empolyment Assurance Scheme |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECG | Electro Cardiogram |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EEG | Electro Encephalogram |
| ELISA | Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay |
| EMF | Electromotive Force |
| EPABX | Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
| EPZ | Export Processing Zone |
| ERDA | Energy Research and Development Administration |
| ESMA | Essential Services Maintenance Act |
| EVM | Electronic Voting Machine |
| EXIM | Export-Import Bank of India |
B
| BAMS | Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery |
| BARC | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BC | Before Crist(Before the Birth of Jesus) |
| BCG | Bacillus Calmette Guerin |
| BCCI | Board of Contol for Cricket in India |
| BEL | Bharat Electronics Limited |
| BENELUX | Beligium,Netherlands and Luxemburg |
| BHEL | Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited |
| BIFR | Board of Industrial Finance and Recostruction |
| BIMSTEC | Bangladesh,India,Myanmar,SriLanka,Thailand Economic Cooperation |
| BIS | Bureau of Indian Standards |
| B Pharma | Bachlor of Pharmacy |
| BSF | Border Security Force |
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