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.” India’s ...

UPDATE: India’s cabinet has selected its winner for the national currency symbol, beating out five other finalists in a national contest to determine the new graphic. India has long lacked a symbol ...

The Indian government has announced that the new Rupee symbol has now been encoded into Unicode Standard and National Standard ISCII system and will also have a fixed location on the keyboard.

After a row erupted over the Tamil Nadu government dropping the Devanagari rupee symbol and replacing the sign with the Tamil letter "Ru" in promotional material for its state budget, Professor D ...

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Just as the Dollar is universally denoted by $‚ the Indian government thinks the Rupee should also have its own unique symbol that captures a sense of India’s history and culture. At this link are 19 ...

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 ...

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Chennai, March 13 -- The rupee symbol, which was replaced by DMK-led state government in its Budget document with a Tamil letter, was designed by the son of ex-DMK MLA and IIT professor Udaya Kumar ...

The hype behind India's announcement of a new rupee symbolis starting to fade, but the designer behind it has been receiving praise from around the world. The government hopes the distinctive new ...