IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, the creator of India’s official rupee symbol “₹,” has distanced himself from the controversy surrounding the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to replace the ...

The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has decided to remove the official rupee symbol (₹) from the state’s Budget 2025, replacing it with the Tamil script. This marks the first time a state has ...

Amid the tussle over language and Hindi imposition with the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26 ...

Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday (March 13, 2025) refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a ...

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 ...