GK Study for IAS Coaching

City

Country

River

Adelaide

Australia

Torrens

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Amsel

Alexandria

Egypt

Nile

Ankara

Turkey

Kazil

Allahabad

India

At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna

Agra

India

Yamuna

Ayodhya

India

Saryu

Ahmedabad

India

Sabarmati

Badrinath

India

Alaknanda

Bareilly

India

Ram Ganga

Bangkok

Thailand

Chao Praya

Basra

Iraq

Euphrates and Tigris

Baghdad

Iraq

Tigris

Berlin

Germany

Spree

Bonn

Germany

Rhine

Budapest

Hungary

Daunbe

Bristol

U. K.

Avon

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Laplata

Cuttack

India

Mahanadi

Curnool

India

Tungabhadra

Chittagong

Bangladesh

Majyani

Canton

China

Si-Kiang

Cairo

Egypt

Nile

Chung King

China

Yang-tse-King

Cologne

Germany

Rhine

Delhi

India

Yamuna

Dandzing

Germany

Vistula

Dresden

Germany

Elve

Dibrugarh

India

Brahmaputra

Dublin

Ireland

Liffy

Ferozpur

India

Satluj

Guwahati

India

Brahmaputra

Hardwar

India

Ganga

Hyderabad

India

Musi

Hamburg

Germany

Elve

Jabalpur

India

Narmada

Jamshedpur

India

Swarnarekha

Jaunpur

India

Gomti

Kabul

Afghanistan

Kabul

Karachi

Pakistan

Indus

Kanpur

India

Ganga

Kota

India

Chambal

Kolkata

India

Hooghly

Khartoum

Sudan

Confluence of Blue and white Nile

Lahore

Pakistan

Ravi

Leningrad

Russia

Neva

Lucknow

India

Gomti

Lisbon

Portugal

Tagus

Liverpool

England

Messey

Ludhiana

India

Satluj

London

England

Thames

Mathura

India

Yamuna

Moscow

Russia

Moskva

Montreal

Canada

St. Lawrence

Nanking

China

Yang-tse-Kiang

New Orleans

U.S.A.

Mississippi

Nasik

India

Godavari

New York

U.S.A.

Hudson

Ottawa

Canada

Ottawa

Patna

India

Ganga

Paris

France

Seine

Philadelphia

U.S.A.

Delaware

Perth

Australia

Swan

Panjim

India

Mandavi

Prague

Czech Republic

Vitava

Quebec

Canada

St. Lawrence

Rome

Italy

Tiber

Rotterdam

The Netherlands

New Mass

Stalingrad

Russia

Volga

Shanghai

China

Yang-tse-Kiang

Sidney

Australia

Darling

Srinagar

India

Jhelum

Surat

India

Tapti

Sambalpur

India

Mahanadi

Serirangapatam

India

Cauvery

Saint Luis

U.S.A.

Mississippi

Tiruchurapalli

India

Cauvery

Tokyo

Japan

Arakava

Ujjain

India

Kshipra

Vijayvada

India

Krishna

Varanasi

India

Ganga

Vienna

Australia

Danube

Warsaw

Poland

Vistula

Washington D.C.

U.S.A.

Potomac

Yangoon

Myanmar

Irrawaddy

Short Name

Full Form or Abbreviations

3G

Third Generation

AAA

Asian Athletics Association

AAFI

The Amateur Athletics Federation of India

AC

Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner

ADB

Asian Development Bank

AFI

Athletics Federation of India

AFMC

Armed Forces Medical College

AI

Artifical Intelligence, Air India

AICTE

All India Council for Technical Education

AIFF

All India Football Federation

AIIMS

All India Institute of Medical Science

AITUC

All India Trade Union Congress

ALGOL

Algebric Oriented Language

AM

Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation

APEC

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

ARPANET

Advanced Research Project Agency Network

ASCII

American Standard Code for Informa­tion Interchange

ASEAN

Association of South East Asian Na­tions

ASLV

Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

AT&T

American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Automated Teller Machine

AVSM

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

B2B

Busines to Business

B2C

Business to Consumer

BARC

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBS

Bulletin Board Service

BC

Before Christ

BHEL

Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd

BIOS

Basic Input Output System

BIT

Binary Digit

BPL

Below Poverty Line

BPO

Business Process Outsourcing

BPR

Business Process Re-engineering

bps

bytes per second

BSE

Bombay Stock Exchange

BSF

Border Security Force

BSNL

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

C2C

Consumer to Consumer

CA

Chartered Accountant

CAD

Com­puter Aided Design

CAT

Common Admis­sion Test

CBI

Central Bureau of Investigation

CBSE

Central Board of Secondary Education

CDAC

Centre for the Development of Ad­vanced Computing

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CFSL

Central Forensic Science Laboratory

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CID

Criminal Investigation Department

CISC

Complex instruction-set computing

CITU

Centre of Indian Trade Unions

CNN

Cable News Network

COMSAT

Communications Satellite Corporation

COPRA

Consumer Protection Act

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPI(M)

Communist Party of India / Marxist

CPWD

Central Public Works Department

CRIS

Centre for Railway Information System

CSIR

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

CTBT

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CYMK

Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda

D.Litt.

Doctor of Literature

D.Phil.

Doctor of Philosophy

D.Sc

Doctor of Science

DC

Direct Current

DIG

Deputy Inspector General

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DMK

Dravida Munetra Kazhagam

DNA

Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid

DTP

Desktop Publishing

DVC

Damodar Valley Corporation

DVD

Digital Versatile/Video Disc

E & OE

Errors and Omissions Excepted

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EIS

Executive Information System

E-MAIL

Electronic Mailing

EMI

Equated Monthly Instalments

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

ENT

Ear, Nose and Throat

EOF

end of file

EOT

Eastern Daylight Time

EPABX

Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

ERNET

Educational and Research Network

FAQ

Frequently Asked Question

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBT

Fringe Benefit Tax

FBTR

Fast Breeder Test Reactor

FBW

Fly-By-Wire

FCI

Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FEMA

Foreign Exchange Management Act

FICCI

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

FIFA

International Football Federation (Fed­eration Internationale de Football Associa­tion)

FIR

First Information Report

FM

Frequency modulation

FRCP

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

FRS

Fellow of the Royal Society

G7

Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus Russia

GATE

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineer­ing

GATS

General Agreement on Trade and Ser­vices

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GSLV

Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Ve­hicle

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communica­tions

GSP

Generalised System Preference

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAL

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HMI

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HUDCO

Housing and Urban Development Corp.

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

i.e.

id est (that is)

IAAI

International Airport Authority of India

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

IAS

Indian Administrative Service

IATA

International Air Transport Association

IBM

International Business Machines

ICSE

Indian Certificate of Secondary Educa­tion

ICU

Intensive Care Unit

ICWA

Indian Council of World Affairs

IDA

International Development Agency

IDBI

Industrial Development Bank of India

IEEE

Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

IELTS

International English Language Testing System

IFC

Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation

IFS

Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service

IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open Uni­versity

IIPA

Indian Institute of Public Administration

IISCO

Indian Iron and Steel Company

IISS

International Institute of Strategic Stud­ies

IIT

Indian Institute of Technology

ILA

Indian Library Association

ILO

International Labour Organisation

IMAP

Internet Mail Access Protocol

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INA

Indian National Army

INTUC

Indian National Trade Union Con­gress

IOC

Indian Oil Corporation

IP

Internet Protocol

IPC

Indian Penal Code

IPCL

Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd

IPI

International Press Institute

E & OE

Errors and Omissions Excepted

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

EIS

Executive Information System

E-MAIL

Electronic Mailing

EMI

Equated Monthly Instalments

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

ENT

Ear, Nose and Throat

EOF

end of file

EOT

Eastern Daylight Time

EPABX

Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange

ERNET

Educational and Research Network

FAQ

Frequently Asked Question

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBT

Fringe Benefit Tax

FBTR

Fast Breeder Test Reactor

FBW

Fly-By-Wire

FCI

Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FEMA

Foreign Exchange Management Act

FICCI

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

FIFA

International Football Federation (Fed­eration Internationale de Football Associa­tion)

FIR

First Information Report

FM

Frequency modulation

FRCP

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

FRS

Fellow of the Royal Society

G7

Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus Russia

GATE

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineer­ing

GATS

General Agreement on Trade and Ser­vices

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GSLV

Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Ve­hicle

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communica­tions

GSP

Generalised System Preference

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAL

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HMI

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HUDCO

Housing and Urban Development Corp.

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

i.e.

id est (that is)

IAAI

International Airport Authority of India

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

IAS

Indian Administrative Service

IATA

International Air Transport Association

IBM

International Business Machines

ICSE

Indian Certificate of Secondary Educa­tion

ICU

Intensive Care Unit

ICWA

Indian Council of World Affairs

IDA

International Development Agency

IDBI

Industrial Development Bank of India

IEEE

Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

IELTS

International English Language Testing System

IFC

Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation

IFS

Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service

IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open Uni­versity

IIPA

Indian Institute of Public Administration

IISCO

Indian Iron and Steel Company

IISS

International Institute of Strategic Stud­ies

IIT

Indian Institute of Technology

ILA

Indian Library Association

ILO

International Labour Organisation

IMAP

Internet Mail Access Protocol

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INA

Indian National Army

INTUC

Indian National Trade Union Con­gress

IOC

Indian Oil Corporation

IP

Internet Protocol

IPC

Indian Penal Code

IPCL

Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd

IPI

International Press Institute

PIN

Postal Index Number

PSLV

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PWD

Public Works Department;

R&D

Research and Development

RADAR

Radio Detecting and Ranging

RAM

Random Access Memory

RAW

Research & Analysis Wing

RBI

Reserve Bank of India

RDX

Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate)

RISC

Reduced instruction-set computing

RNA

Ribonucleic acid

ROM

Read Only Memory

RPM

Revolutions Per Minute

RTI

Right to Information

SAIL

Steel Authority of India Limited

SARS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

SEBI

Securities and Exchange Board of India

SENSEX

Sensitivity Index (of Share Price)

SEZ

Special Economic Zone

SGPC

Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee

SIM

Subscriber Information Module

SLV

Satellite Launch Vehicle

SMS

Short Message Service

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

STD

Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases

TADA

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act

TCP

Transfer Call Protocol<br> Transmission Control Protocol

TELCO

Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company

TFT

Thin-Film Transistor

TIFR

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

TISCO

Tata Iron and Steel Company

TOEFL

Test of English as a Foreign Language

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UGC

University Grants Commission

ULFA

United Liberation Front of Asom

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-sation

UNI

United News of India

UNICEF

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund')

UNU

United Nations University

UPA

United Progressive Alliance

UPSC

Union Public Service Commission

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

VAT

Value Added Tax

VCR

Video Cassette Recorder

VIP

Very Important Person

VIRUS

Vital Information Resources Under Siege

VRML

Virtual Reality Modelling Language

VRS

Voluntary Retirement Scheme

VSSC

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

WHO

World Health Organisation

WMO

World Meteorological Organisation

WTO

World Trade Orga-nisation

WWF

World Wildlife Fund

WWW

World Wide Web

WYSIWYG

What you see is what you get

XML

Extensible Mark-up Language

YMCA

Young Men's Christian Association

ZIP

Zone Improvement Plan

SPORTS AND THE TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

Badminton

Angled Drive Serve, Backhand Low Serve, Bird, Deuce, Double Droup, Fault, Flick Serve, Forehand Smash, Let, Lob, Love All, net Shots, Rush, Smash.

Baseball

Base, Battery, Bunting, Catcher, Diamond, Hitter, Home Infield, Outfield, Pinch, Pitcher Plate, Pullout, Short Stop, Strike.

Basketball

Ball, Basket, Blocking, Dribbling, Free Throw, Held Ball, Holding, Jump Ball, Multiple Throws, Pivot.

Billiards

Baulk Line, Break, Bolting, Cannon, Cue, Hazard, In-off, Jigger, Long jenney, Pot, Scratch, Screw Back, short Stop, Strike.

Boxing

Ausiliary Point System, Babit Punch, Break, Cut, Defence, Down, Hook, Jab, Lying On, Knock, Seconds out, Slam, Upper Cut, Weight In, Win by Knock-out.

Bridge

Auction, Bid, Chicane, Cut, Declarer, Doubleton, Dummy, Finesse, Grand Slam, Little Slam, Notrumps, Over-trick, Revoke, rubber, Ruff, Shuffle, Suit, Vulnerable.

Chess

Bishop, Capture, Castling, Checkmate, En Passant, Gambit, Grand Master, King, Knight, Pawn, Queen, Rook, Stalemate, Under Promoting.

Cricket

Ashes, Banana, Boundary, Bowling, Caught, Chinaman, Cover Drive, Crease, Doosra, Duck, Duckworth-Lewis Rule, Fine Leg, Follow On, Full Toss, Gardening, Googly, Gully, Hat-trick, Hit Wicket, Inswinger, l.b.w., Leg-break, Leg-bye, Leg Glance, late Cut, maiden Over, No Ball, Off Break, On Drive, Out, Outswinger, Over, Mandatory Over, over Pitch, Popping Crease, Rubber, Run Down, Run Out, Short Pitch, Silly Point, Slip, Square Leg, Stone Walling, Straight Drive, Stumped, Short leg, Spin, Swing, Thirdman, Yorker.

Croquet

Hoops, Mallet, Peg Out.

Draughts

Huff

Football

Advantage Clause, Blind Side, Centre Forward, Corner Kick, Dead Ball, Direct Free Kick, Dribble, Goal kick, Golden Goal, Hat-trick, Marking, OffSide, Penalty Kick, Penalty Shootout, Red Card, Striker, Throw In, Tripping.

Golf

Best-ball Foursome, Bogey, Bunker, Caddie, Dormy, Fairway, Fourball, Foursome, Greed Holes, Links, Niblic, Par, Put, Rough, Stymied, Tee, Threesome.

Gymnastics

A-bars, Ariel, Blocks, Cone of Swing, Dish, Flairs, Giants, Inlocate, Kip, Planche, Tariff, Tumble, Virtuosity, Wrap.

Hockey

Advantage, Back-stick, Bully, Cary, Centre Forward, Corner, Dribble, Flick, Free-hit, Goal Line, Green Card, Halfway Line, Hat-trick, Off-side, Red Car, Roll -in, Scoop, Short Corner, Sixteen-yard hit, Square Pass, Stick, Striking Cirele, Tackle, Tie-breaker, Zonal Marking.

Jockey, Punt, Steeplechase, Thorough Bred.

Judo

Ashi-waza, chui, Dan, Dojo, Gyaku, Hajime, Ippon, Jigotai, Kaeshiwaza, Koka, Makikomi, Nage-waza, O-goshi, Randori, Scarf, Tani-Otoshi, Uchi-komvi, Waki-gatame, Yoshi, Yuko.

Karate

Age Zuki, Ai-uchi, Aka, Chakugan, Dachi, Encho Sen, Fudotachi, Gedan, Geri, Hajime, Ibuki, Jion, Kakato, Koka, Makiwara, Nidan, Obi, Rei, Sanbon, Shiro, Tobigeri, Ude, Waza-ari, Yoko-geri, Zanshin, Zen-no.

Polo

Bunker, Chukker, Mallet.

Rowing

Bow, Bucket, Cow, Ergometer, Feather, Paddle, Regatta.

Rugby Football

A Trackle, Lines, Scrum, Touch, Try.

Shooting

Jockey, Punt, Steeplechase, Thorough Bred.

Judo

Ashi-waza, chui, Dan, Dojo, Gyaku, Hajime, Ippon, Jigotai, Kaeshiwaza, Koka, Makikomi, Nage-waza, O-goshi, Randori, Scarf, Tani-Otoshi, Uchi-komvi, Waki-gatame, Yoshi, Yuko.

Karate

Age Zuki, Ai-uchi, Aka, Chakugan, Dachi, Encho Sen, Fudotachi, Gedan, Geri, Hajime, Ibuki, Jion, Kakato, Koka, Makiwara, Nidan, Obi, Rei, Sanbon, Shiro, Tobigeri, Ude, Waza-ari, Yoko-geri, Zanshin, Zen-no.

Polo

Bunker, Chukker, Mallet.

Rowing

Bow, Bucket, Cow, Ergometer, Feather, Paddle, Regatta.

Rugby Football

A Trackle, Lines, Scrum, Touch, Try.

Shooting

Bag, Bull's Eye, Marksmanship, Muzzle, Plug.

Skiing

Tobogganing.

Swimming

Breast Stroke, Crawl.

Table Tennis

Anti Loop, Backspin, Chop, Loop, Penhold Grip, Push, Spin, Twiddle.

Tennis

Ace, Backhand Stroke, Deuce, Deep Volley, Deuce, Double Fault, Fault, Ground Stroke, Half Volley, Let, Love, Slice, Smash, Volley

Volleyball

Ace, Base-line, Blocking, Doubling, Foot Fault, Heave, Holding, Jump Set, Lob Pass, Love All, Point, Quick Smash, Scouting, Service, Spike, Tactical Ball, Volley, Windmill Service.

Wrestling

Half-Nelson, Head Lock, Heave, Hold, Rebouts, Scissor.