IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who designed the Indian rupee symbol, distanced himself from the controversy over Tamil Nadu's decision to replace the Devanagari symbol with a Tamil letter in ...

Tamil Nadu's Stalin government replaced the rupee symbol with a Tamil letter for the state budget, sparking criticism from Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and BJP leaders. They argue that ...

The logo carried ‘ru’, the first letter of the Tamil word ‘Rubaai’ which denotes the Indian currency in the vernacular language. The move saw the state BJP hit out at the MK Stalin-led party.

The Tamil Nadu government has replaced the Indian rupee symbol '₹' with the Tamil letter 'ரூ' (pronounced as Ru) in the official logo of its 2025-26 state budget. The decision, made under ...