The Indian Finance Ministry unveiled its choice for the new Rupee symbol today–and it’s an amalgam of both Eastern and Western letters, using the Devanagari “Ra” and Roman capital “R.” India’s ...

UPDATE: India’s cabinet has selected its winner for the national currency symbol, beating out five other finalists in a national contest to determine the new graphic. India has long lacked a symbol ...

After a row erupted over the Tamil Nadu government dropping the Devanagari rupee symbol and replacing the sign with the Tamil letter "Ru" in promotional material for its state budget, Professor D ...

The Tamil Nadu government's decision to introduce a new rupee logo has triggered a major political controversy after chief ...

The Indian government has announced that the new Rupee symbol has now been encoded into Unicode Standard and National Standard ISCII system and will also have a fixed location on the keyboard.

Chennai, March 13 -- The rupee symbol, which was replaced by DMK-led state government in its Budget document with a Tamil letter, was designed by the son of ex-DMK MLA and IIT professor Udaya Kumar ...

Tamil Nadu, led by CM Stalin, replaced the Indian rupee symbol with Tamil letters in the state budget, sparking BJP criticism. This move adds to ongoing debates over regional languages, raising ...

Vendors of computers, mobile phones, and software say they will support the symbol for the Indian rupee that was approved by the Indian cabinet on Thursday. But it may be over two years before the ...

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Microsoft has released a Windows update that adds support for India’s new rupee symbol, but the update excludes a significant number of users who still run Windows XP, according to analysts. The ...