Tamil Nadu government replaces national rupee symbol with Tamil script in Budget 2025 amid language controversy.

The man behind the iconic rupee symbol design is D. Udaya Kumar, an Indian academic and designer with a passion for typography and graphic design. Kumar's design for the rupee symbol is a blend of the ...

Mr Kumar's design was chosen from 3,000 entries submitted nationwide, and he received an award of Rs 2.5 lakh. The symbol is ...

IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, the creator of India’s official rupee symbol “₹,” has distanced himself from the ...

Amid the burning language row in Tamil Nadu, the state government has replaced the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter ...

The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu defended its decision to replace the Indian rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its budget logo, ...

The rupee (₹) symbol was introduced less than 15 years ago, chosen from thousands of designs. Incidentally, the design that ...

The logo, released by the office of Chief Minister M K Stalin, which read ‘Ellorkkum Ellaam’ (Everything for Everyone), carried ‘ru’, the first letter of the Tamil word ‘rubaai’ which denotes the ...

Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, designer of the Indian rupee symbol, responded to controversy over Tamil Nadu's decision to replace ...

My father was an MLA even before I was born. Now, he is old and living in our village, leading his life peacefully. It just ...