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.
This desert is located in far Western Asia, covering most of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land surface of about 900,000 square miles, it engulfs much of Yemen, the Persian Gulf, Oman, Jordan and Iraq. Its center, Rub âal-Khali, the âEmpty Quarterâ, forms the largest continuous body of sand in the world.