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

The Indian government unveiled its new symbol for the rupee, a graphic winning a contest that beat out five central competitors. View photos.

We identify major world currencies with symbols. 'til today, the Indian rupee didn't have one of its own. In 2009, designers were invited to participate in a national competition, "to come up with ...

“It’s probably more aspirational,” he adds, but “in 1990, if India said we’ll have a rupee symbol, people would have laughed at it. Today, people are asking how important it is.” ...

We love the new ‘rupee’ symbol. Not just for its subtle roman ‘R’ but more for the fact that we hate typing ‘Rs.’. Really. $120 is way cooler than Rs. 120.

Update: Indian Express reports that keyboards with the new rupee symbol will be rolled out in January 2012.. N Ravi Shanker, additional secretary, Department of Information Technology said: The ...

Significance of the symbol: Not only identity, but also a question of sovereignty. The symbol currently used for the Indian rupee ₹ was officially adopted by the Government of India in the year ...

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." ...

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.

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 ...

The 500 rupee star symbol note is correct. RBI issues it when, while printing a bundle of notes, there is a complaint of a printing mistake or damage due to cutting in any of them.

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