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 ...

Rather, it was a new addition. Here is everything you need to know about the history of the Rupee symbol, its design and concept, and controversies. The rupee symbol was presented to the public by ...

Read: "Designed By Tamilian": K Annamalai's "Stupid" Barb At DMK Amid Rupee Row He said his only goal at the time of designing the symbol was to fulfil the design brief he was provided and keep it ...

The Centre had officially adopted the rupee symbol on July 15, 2010. According to his website, Mr Kumar has a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and a Master's Degree in Design (visual communication).

The iconic rupee symbol (₹) has a history that dates back to 2010. Udaya Kumar, then a postgraduate student at IIT Bombay, was on the verge of joining the design department at IIT Guwahati when ...

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 ...

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 14 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Vanathi Srinivasan on Friday criticized the MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government for replacing the Rupee symbol ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday slammed the Tamil Nadu government's move to replace the rupee symbol with a Tamil character, saying that it signals a dangerous mindset that ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

The presentation of this year's budget has been overshadowed by controversy following Chief Minister M.K. Stalin's decision to remove the Indian rupee symbol (₹) from the state budget's official ...

Hours after the rupee ‘₹’ symbol was dropped from the logo of the Tamil Nadu state budget, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticised Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin by terming the move a ...

Back then Udayakumar, whose design was chosen from a contest by the Union Government for the first official symbol for Rupee – which until then was represented with the letters ‘Rs’, had met ...