AAI	Airport Authority of India
ABCDEFGHIJ	American Born Confused Desi Emigrated From Gujarat, House In Jersey
AGP	AsomGanaParishad, regional party in Assam
AI	Air India, a PSU
AIADMK	All-India Anna DravidaMunnetraKazhagam
AIR	All India Radio, state owned radio stations
AP	Andhra Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh
ASLV	Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
BCCI	Board of Cricket Control in India
BG	Broad Gauge (trains or tracks (5ft. 6in.  the broadest in the world)
BJP	BharatiyaJanata Party, national political party, rightwing, pro-Hindu
BSP	BahujanSamaj Party, political party, promotes lower caste interests
CBI	Central Bureau of Investigation (like American FBI)
CBSE	Central Board of Secondary Education
Chi.	Chiranjeevi, the title/salutation for a bridegroom
CII	Confederation fo Indian Industry
CM	Chief Minister  (like American Governor
CPI	Communist Party of India (historically aligned to Russian party)
CPI (M)	Communist Party of India (Marxist), historically aligned to Chinese party
CPI (ML)	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
CPWD	Central Public Works Department; PWD of the GOI
DA	Dearness Allowance, paid to compensate for inflation
DD	Doordarshan, state-owned television channel
DMK	DravidaMunnetraKazhagam
DoT	Department of Telecommunications
DRDO	Defence Research and Development Organisation
EMU	Electric Multiple Unit
FC	Forward Caste
FM	Finance Minister
GoI	Government of India
GSLV	Geostationary Launch Vehicle
HC	High Court (the highest provincial court, but lower than the federal Supreme Court)
HP	Himachal Pradesh
IAF	Indian Air Force
IGNOU	Indira Gandhi National Open University
IIM	Indian Institute of Management
IIT	Indian Institute of Technology
IMD	India Meteorological Department
INSAT	Indian National Satellite
IPKF	Indian Peace Keeping Force, postioned in a foreign country such as Sri Lanka
IRS	Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
ISI	Formerly Indian Standards Institute, renamed Bureau of Indian Standards,
ISRO	Indian Space Research Organisation
KVS
LoC	Line of Control (between Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Indian-controlled state of Jammu & Kashmir, formerly called the Cease-Fire Line
LS	LokSabha (lower house of Parliament)
LTTE	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
m-cap	(stock) market capitalisation
MDMK	MarumalarchiDravidaMunnetraKazhagam
MEA	Ministry of External Affairs
MG	Meter Gauge (trains or tracks), being phased out
MP	Madhya Pradesh
NET
NDA	National Democratic Alliance
NIC :	National Informatics Centre
NRI	Non-Resident Indian
NSC	National Savings Certificate
NVS
OBC	Other Backward Classes
ONGC	Oil and Natural Gas Commission
PAN	Permanent Account Number (like US Taxpayer Identification Number)
PF	Provident Fund (vaguely similar to US Social Security, payable as a lump-sum)
PIGS	Poor Indian Graduate Student
PIL	Public Interest Litigation (brought before a High Court, by a friend of the court)
PMK	Pattali Munnetra Kazhagam
PQWL	Pooled Quota Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym
PSLV	Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PSU	Public Sector Unit (a company whose stock is owned largely by the government)
PTI	Press Trust of India, a news agency
PWD	Public Works Department (state civil engineering group handling roads, bridges)
RAC	Reservation Against Cancellation, Indian Railways Acronym
RAW	Research & Analysis Wing (similar to US CIA)
REGRET/WL1	No More Booking Permitted, Indian Railways Acronym
RLWL-	Remote Location Wait List, Indian Railways Acronym
RNRI	Returned Non Resident Indian, An NRI who has moved to his home country
RS	Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament
RSS	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
SAARC	South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (seven countries of South Asia)
SAIL	Steel Authority of India, a public sector undertaking (PSU)
SC	Supreme Court, the highest court in the country (higher than High Courts)
SC/ST	Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Harijans or Dalits)
SEBI	Securities Exchange Board of India
Sensex	Sensitive Index (of the Bombay Stock Exchange), like Dow Jones average
SP	Samajwadi Party; Samata Party
ST	Scheduled Tribes
TN	Tamil Nadu
ULFA	United Liberation Front of Asom
UP	Uttar Pradesh
VHP	Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a fundamentalist Hindu party, right of BJP
WB	West Bengal

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