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The growth rate of currency in circulation slowed down to 3.7% for the week ended February 9, compared to 8.2% a year earlier, due to the Reserve Bank of India's decision to withdraw Rs 2,000 banknotes. Currency in circulation includes all notes and coins in circulation, excluding cash held by banks. Commercial banks also saw double-digit growth in deposits in January, which can be linked to the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 notes.

A defunct Earth-observing satellite descended from orbit Wednesday and safely disintegrated over the Pacific. The European Remote Sensing 2 satellite,

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite gracefully concluded its three-decade-long mission with a natural atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, February 21, as per the ESA.

The European Space Agency (Esa) says most of the two-tonne satellite will burn up on the way down.

ERS-2 was a cutting-edge observation platform when it launched in 1995, forging technologies that are now used routinely to monitor the planet.