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 an uproar over the Tamil Nadu state budget logo replacing the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter of 'Ru' (Rubai in the vernacular language), the DMK IT Wing hit back at critics, calling them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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. Vendors of computers, mobile phones, and ...

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government approved a symbol for the rupee, an attempt to give its currency a unique identity as the country seeks to expand its financial influence. The search for the rupee's ...

The United States dollar has its symbol, $. So does the British pound, £; the Japanese yen, ¥; and the Euro, €. But not the Indian rupee, until now. The Indian government launched a competition to ...