Bond duration is an investment concept that few average investors truly understand, yet it can have a meaningful impact on how your bond mutual fund or fixed income portfolio performs relative to the bond market as a whole.
The Great Indian Desert lies to the South-west of the fertile Northern Plain or the Gangetic Plain. It is also called the Thar Desert. The Aravali Hills divide Rajasthan into two parts. The Western part of Rajasthan is the Great Indian Desert. Its soil is composed of sand, hard rocks and sand dunes. In the given map you find that the Great Indian Desert extends from the Aravalis in the East to Pakistan in the West.
n. 1. (Placename) a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China: sometimes considered to include all the arid regions east of the Pamirs and north of the plateau of Tibet and the Great Wall of China: one of the largest deserts in the world. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles).