Important Abbreviations and their Full Form - I to P

Short Name	Full Form or Abbreviations
IPO	Initial Public Offering
IPS	Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service
IQ	Intelligence Quotient
IRC	International Red Cross
IRDP	Integrated Rural Development Programme
IRS	Indian Revenue Service
ISBN	International Standard Book Number
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISI	Indian Standards Institution; Inter Services Intelligence
ISKCON	International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISO	International Standards Organisation
ISRO	Indian Space Research Organisation
IST	Indian Standard Time
ITBP	Indo-Tibetan Border Police
ITES	Information Technology enabled services
ITI	Indian Telephone Industries Industrial Training Institute
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
IVF	In-Vitro Fertilisation
IVM	In-vitro Maturation
JCO	Junior Commissioned Officer
JEE	Joint Entrance Examination
JPEG	Joint Photographic Expert Group
LASER	Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCA	Light Combat Aircraft
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display Least Common Denominator
LCM	Lowest Common Multiple
LIC	Life Insurance Corporation (of India)
LLB	Bachelor of Laws
LMC	Large Megallanic Cloud
LTTE	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
M.A.	Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)
M.D	Doctor of Medicine
MBA	Master of Business Administration
MBBS	Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
MCC	Marylebone Cricket Club
MCI	Medical Council of India
MICR	Magnetic ink character recognition
MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS	Million Instructions per Second
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master Instruction Tape
MLA	Member of Legislative Assembly
MNC	Multi-National Corporation
MODEM	modulator demodulator
MP	Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh
MPEG	Motion Picture Experts Group
MRCP	Member of the Royal College of Physicians
MTCR	Missile Technology Control Regime
MVC	Maha Vir Chakra
NAAC	National Assessment and Accreditation Council
NABARD	National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NAFED	National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation
NALCO	National Aluminium Company Ltd.
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration
NASDAQ	National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
NASSCOM	National Association of Software and Service Companies
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NAV	Net Asset Value
NCERT	National Council of Educational Research and Training
NCSA	National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association
NDA	National Defence Academy
NOC	No Objection Certificate
NPA	Non-performing Assets
NPT	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRF	National Renewal Fund
NSUI	National Students Union of India
NTPC	National Thermal Power Corporation
OBC	Other Backward Classes
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
ONGC	Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
OOP	Object Oriented Programme
OPEC	Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OSCAR	Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
PAN	Permanent Account Number
Ph.D.	Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor)
PIL	Public Interest Litigation