D. Udaya Kumar of IIT Bombay designed the Indian Rupee symbol in 2009, before which the Indian currency had no graphic ...

Language English (India) Description After setting my keyboard layout to English (India). The default currency symbol is still $ (Dollar). I want default currency symbol as Rupee symbol. Even if you ...

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 ...

What’s in a symbol? A lot, if one goes by last week’s political storm over Tamil Nadu’s substitution of India’s rupee sign ‘ ₹ ’ with a similar sounding letter in the Tamil script ...

MK Stalin explains why he replaced Rupee symbol in Tamil Nadu budget The move has sparked a political row, with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman calling it a “secessionist sentiment.” ...

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 ...

Fact-check on Nirmala's 'secessionist' dig at Tamil Nadu government over rupee symbol change Md Zubair, co-founder of the fact-check website AltNews, replied to her with a screenshot of her tweets, ...

Tamil Nadu replaced the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter 'Ru' in its 2025–26 budget, rejecting the national currency sign. This move reflects Tamil pride and opposition to the three ...

D Udaya Kumar, currently working as a professor at IIT Guwahati, designed the Indian rupee symbol in 2010.

Rupee symbol creator Udaya Kumar refuses to be drawn into controversy over new logo in Tamil Nadu The logo for the State budget, released by the Tamil Nadu government, carried ‘ரூ’, the ...

How did the rupee symbol come into existence: Tamil Nadu government replaces national rupee symbol with Tamil script in Budget 2025 amid language controversy.