Common Abbreviations in English

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H. Expand the following abbreviations:
1.AC -  Air Conditioner /Alternative     Current
2.AICTE – All India Council for Technical Education
3.AIDS  - Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome
4.AIR – All India Radio
5.BBC-British Broadcasting Corporation
6.B.Ed.- Bachelor of Education
7.BHEL – Bharat Heavy Electronics Ltd
8.BIOS-Basic Input Output System
9.BIS – Bureau of Indian Standards
10.CET- Common Entrance Test
11. CA-Chartered Accountant
12.CBI – Central Bureau of Investigation
13.CBSE – Central Board of Secondary Education
14.CID - Criminal Investigation Department
15.DVD – Digital Versatile Disc
16.DNA - Di-ixyribo Nucleic Acid
17.DTH – Direct to Home
18.EVM – Electronic Voting Machine
19.FDI-Foreign Direct Investment
20.FII-Foreign Institutional Investors
21.FIR – First Information Report
22.GPF – General Provident Fund
23.GPRS-General Packet Radio System
24.GPS-Global Positioning System
25.GOOGLE - Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth
26.HTML-Hyper Text Markup Language
27.IGNOU-Indira Gandhi National Open University
28.I IT – Indian Institute of Technology
29.IOC-International Olympic Committee
30.IFS- Indian Foreign Service
31.IPS- Indian police service
32.IAS- Indian Administrative service
33.ISRO – Indian Space Research Organization
34.IST-Indian Standard Time
35.I SO – International Organization for standardization
36.IQ – Intelligence Quotient
37.LTTE-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
38.MBBS-Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
39.MMS-Multimedia Messaging Service
40.MODEM-Modulator-Demodulator
41.NABARD-National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development
42.NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
43.NAV-Net Asset Value
44.NABARD – National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development
45.NCERT-National Council of Education Research and Training
46.NIIT – National Institute of Information Technology
47.NRI – Non Resident Indian
48.NSE-National Stock Exchange
49.PAN-Permanent Account Number
50.PTI – Press Trust of India
51.PIN – Postal Index Number
52.PWD – Public Works Department
53.RBI-Reserve Bank of India
54.RCC-Reinforced Concrete Cement
55.SAARC- South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
56.SEBI-Securities and Exchange Board of India
57.SIM – Subscriber Identify Module
58.STD – Subscribers Trunk Dialing
59.SMS – Short Message Service
60.TDS-Tax Deduction at Source
61.TIN-Tax Information Network
62.UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
63.UNO – United Nations Organizations
64.UGC-University Grants Commission
65.URL – Uniform Resource Locater
66.UTI – Unit Trust of India
67.VAT – Value Added Tax
68.VIP – Very Important Person
69.VRS-Voluntary Retirement Scheme
70.WHO-World Health Organisation
71.WWW – World Wide Web
72.XML-eXtensible Markup Language
73.YAHOO - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle