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." ...

The new symbol would be the "identity of the Indian currency," a finance ministry official told the BBC. The contest, which closes on 15 April, is open only to resident Indians, a release on the ...

A handout picture released by India's Press Information Bureau shows the new symbol for the Indian rupee, July 15, 2010. ILLUSTRATION: AFP/Getty Images.

NEW DELHI: The Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in ...

In a move that underscores India's increasing global economic ambitions, the authorities are poised to reveal the results of competition to design a symbol for the national currency, the rupee ...

The winning symbol was approved by Indian union cabinet in July 2010 and a proposal was submitted to encode the Indian rupee sign into UCS and make it a computer standard.

We love the new ‘rupee’ symbol. Not just for its subtle roman ‘R’ but more for the fact that we hate typing ‘Rs.’. Really. $120 is way cooler than Rs. 120.

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.

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 ...