IIT Guwahati professor Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, the designer of the official Indian rupee symbol, expressed surprise over the debate surrounding the change. “I don't have complete information ...

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 ...

Without making it clear how it was mandatory for everyone to use only a symbol that cannot be typed out in computer keyboards whenever a reference is made to the Indian rupee, she just launched ...

Sitharaman pointed out, the Indian Rupee symbol was designed by IIT Professor D. Uday Kumar, son of former DMK MLA N. Dharmalingam. She questioned why DMK, which was a part of UPA government ...

CHENNAI: The replacing of the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter 'Ru' in the budget presented for 2025-26 was to show how determined the ruling DMK was over the language policy, Tamil Nadu ...

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Sitharaman had on Thursday night accused Tamil Nadu’s DMK government of “secessionist sentiments” for its use of the Tamil alphabet “roo” as the symbol for the rupee instead of the official ₹ in a ...

A political row over the linguistic origin of the ‘ ₹’ symbol mustn’t distract us from the need to ensure that India’s currency evolves in optimal response to tech shifts and geo ...