General Awareness: Abbreviation

Abbreviation in News

A

            ASEAN- Association of South East Asian Nation

      AAD- Advanced Air Defence

      AAI- Airport Authority of India

      ADS-B- Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast

      ATC- Air Traffic Control

      AOSIS- Association of Small Island States

B

BRICS- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

BASIC- Brazil, South Africa, India and China

BCCI- Board of Control for Cricket in India

C

     CDR - Corporate Debt Restructuring

      CEPA- Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

      CECA- Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement

 CCEA- Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

CRIS- Comparative Rating Index for Sovereign

CIC- Central Information Commission

CPCSEA- Committee for the purpose of control and supervision of experiments on animals

CDC- Centre for Disease Control

CBGA- Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability

CSR- Corporate social responsibility

D

DTAA- Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

DRDO- Defense Research and Development Organization

DII- Domestic Institutional Investor

DTC- Direct Tax Code

DGHS- Directorate General of Health Services

DRL- Defence Research Laboratory

DSIIDC- Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation

E

EFSF- European Financial Stability Facility

EEFC- Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency

ECBs- External Commercial Borrowings

EGOM- Empowered Group Of Ministers

EFLU- English and Foreign Languages University

F

FIPB- Foreign Investment Promotion board

FII- Foreign Institutional Investor

FCNRA- Foreign Currency Non Resident account

FSI- Forest Survey of India

FSSAI- Food Safety Standards Authority of India

FDI- Foreign Direct Investment

G

GAAR- General anti avoidance rule

GSLV- Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle

GRAIL- Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

GST- Goods and Services Tax

GFCE- Government Final Consumption Expenditure

I

ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization

IAEA- International Atomic Energy Agency

ICBM- Inter-continental Ballistic missile

IDF- Infrastructure Debt Fund

IAWRT- International Association of Women in Radio and Television

IIAS- Indian Institute of Advance Studies

ICIMOD- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

IED- Improvised Explosive Devices

L

LDC’s- Least Developed Countries

M

MMRCA- Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft

MTCR- Missile Technology Control Regime

MPLADS- MP Local Area Development Scheme

MSF- Marginal Standing Facility

MIRV- Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles

MFI- Micro Finance Institutions

MFDC- Micro Finance Development Council

MOEF- Ministry of Environment and Forests

N

NCTC- National Counter-Terrorism Centre

NPS- New Pension Scheme

NDMA- National Disaster Management Authority

NSG- Nuclear Suppliers Group

NCHER- National Commission for Higher Education and Research

NCHRH- National Commission for Human Resources for Health

 NLD- National League for Democracy

NCSC- National Council for Senior Citizen

 NHRC- National Human Rights Commission

NEFT- National Electronic Funds Transfer

NIA- National Investigation Agency

NDPS- Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance

NTRO- National Technical Research Organization

NFSRAC- National Food Science and Risk Assessment Centre

NIOS- National Institute of Open Schooling

NRHM- National Rural Health Mission

P

PPP – Public Private Partnership and Purchasing Power parity

PSLV – Polar Satellite Launch vehicle

R

RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement

S

 S&P - Standard and Poor’s

SAARC - South-Asian Association for Regional Co-operation

T

TCS -Tax Collection at Source

TIEA – Tax Information exchange Agreement

TAPI - Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India

TRAI - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

U

UN-DESA-UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

UNHRC- United Nations Human Rights Council

W

WITFOR- World IT Forum