The Tamil symbol for the rupee has since 2003 been in the Unicode, the global character encoding standard. However, though several countries in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region call their ...

The Indian rupee (₹) symbol was officially adopted in 2010 following a nationwide ... To facilitate international use, the Unicode Technical Committee assigned the symbol the code U+20B9 on August 10, ...

The M.K. Stalin government has replaced the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for ‘Ru’ in the state budget logo, amid the ongoing three-language controversy. Before 2010, the Indian rupee ...

The Tamil government's decision to replace the Indian rupee symbol with a new logo - Tamil alphabet 'Ru' - has triggered a massive political controversy amid the ongoing language battle.

Amid the burning language row in Tamil Nadu, the state government has replaced the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for 'ru', which is the first letter of the Tamil word 'Rubaai' meaning ...

Meanwhile, the ruling DMK defended its party-led government replacing the Indian rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26, saying there was nothing wrong in using the ...

The Tamil Nadu government’s decision to replace the Rupee symbol (₹) with the Tamil letter ... The currency, deeply rooted in the Indian subcontinent’s history, has evolved over centuries ...

who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a DMK MLA.

The rupee symbol was originally designed by Tamilian Udaya Kumar, whose work incorporated both Indian and universal design features. The current rupee symbol was designed by a Tamilian designer ...

The rupee symbol was designed by Udhay Kumar, a Tamil Nadu-based academic and son of former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA N Dharmalingam, and was officially adopted by the Indian government in 2010.