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  ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo...

Important Deserts of the world


Desert: A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life in desert their is less precipitation

1. Continent: Antarctica

Desert Name: Antartic

2. Continent: Asia, Europe, North America

Desert Name: Arctic desert

3. Continent: Asia

Desert Name: Karakum, Thar desert, Kyzylkum, Taklamakan, Arabian, Dasht-e Kavir, Dasht-e Lut, Gobi Desert

4. Continent: Africa

Desert Name: Kalahari, Namib, Sahara,

5. Continent: Australia

Desert Name: Gibson, Great Sandy, Great Victoria, Simpson, Tanami

6. Continent: Europe

Desert Name: Tabernas Desert

7. Continent: North America

Desert Name: Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran

8. Continent: South America

Desert Name: Atacama, Patagonian

Important Points to be remember about Important desert of the world

Desert name: Antartic

Largest desert in the world

Largest cold desert in the world

Area: 1,38,29,430 square km

Type: polar

Desert name: Arctic desert

Second largest desert in the world

Area: 1,37,26,937 square km

Type: polar

Desert name: Gobi

Present in Asia

Area: 1,300,000 square km

Cold winter desert

Desert name: Sahara

Largest hot desert

Present in Africa

Subtropical desert

94,00,000 square km

Desert name: Atacama

The Driest Desert on the Earth

Area: 1,40,000 square km

Present in Chile

Type: Cool Coastal

Desert name: Great Basin

Type: Cold Winter

Present in US

Area: 4,92,000 square km

Types of Question Can be asked in Railways, SSC & Other Competitive Exams

Which is the largest desert of the world: Antarctica desert

Which is the largest cold desert in the world: Antarctica desert

Which is the largest hot desert of the world: Sahara desert

Which is the largest desert of India: Thar desert

Which is the largest driest desert of the world:Atacama desert (present in chile in south America)

Which is the second largest desert of the world: Arctic desert

Where is Taklamakan desert: China


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