Famous Cities and River Banks
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 |
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 |
|
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 |
|
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.
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National Games |
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Australia |
Cricket |
Canada |
Ice Hockey |
China |
Table Tennis |
England |
Cricket and Rugby Football |
India |
Hockey |
Japan |
Ju-Jitsu |
Russia |
Chess |
Scotland |
Rugby Football |
Spain |
Bull Fighting |
USA |
Baseball |
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