Many people in India wrongly believe their 10-rupee coins are worthless, after reports of widespread counterfeiting went viral on social media. The coins are real. The news is fake.

The United States dollar has its symbol, $. So does the British pound, £; the Japanese yen, ¥; and the Euro, €. But not the Indian rupee, until now.

Upon adopting the rupee symbol in July 2010, the Centre had said that it would adopt the sign within six months domestically, and around the world in two years.

The MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government has replaced the rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its state budget logo, amidst an ongoing language row between the state and the centre.

The new symbol would be the "identity of the Indian currency," a finance ministry official told the BBC. The contest, which closes on 15 April, is open only to resident Indians, a release on the ...

The update released earlier this week adds support for the rupee currency symbol in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2, according to https://www.pcworld.com ...

A handout picture released by India's Press Information Bureau shows the new symbol for the Indian rupee, July 15, 2010. ILLUSTRATION: AFP/Getty Images.

NEW DELHI — The Indian rupee joined the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the euro and the Japanese yen on Thursday when it got its very own symbol. The rupee’s new rune is a modification of a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NEW DELHI: The Indian rupee will join the dollar, yen, euro and pound with its own symbol. The new currency icon is an amalgam of ...

In a move that underscores India's increasing global economic ambitions, the authorities are poised to reveal the results of competition to design a symbol for the national currency, the rupee ...

India's new Rupee symbol won't show soon on computers It will take at least 18 months for encoding the symbol in Unicode, the government says. By John Ribeiro.

NEW DELHI: The Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in ...