D. Udaya Kumar of IIT Bombay designed the Indian Rupee symbol in 2009, before which the Indian currency had no graphic ...

The Indian rupee is set to open higher on Friday, tracking a broader recovery in Asian peers and supported by a pause in the U.S. dollar index's near-term uptrend.

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 ...

NEW DELHI — India’s rupee has joined the ranks of the dollar, the pound, the euro and the yen: It now can be designated with a symbol.. After a nationwide contest, India’s government ...

The Indian rupee is set to open weaker on Wednesday after June U.S. inflation data hinted at tariff-driven price pressures, ...

NEW DELHI — The Indian rupee joined the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the euro and the Japanese yen on Thursday when it got its very own symbol. The rupee’s new rune is a modification of a ...

The rupee declined 15 paise to settle at 86.07 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday amid a stronger greenback, ...

That happy guy up there is D. Udaya Kumar. He just won the Indian government's contest to design a symbol for the rupee. (Until now, it's been abbreviated as "Rs.") His design follows the modern ...

Indian Rupee Gets Its Own Symbol : The Two-Way It joins the dollar, yen, euro, and pound. The Two-Way. Must Reads. Indian Rupee Gets Its Own Symbol. July 15, 2010 9:41 AM ET. By . David Gura ...

The story behind the Rupee symbol: how it came into existence? After extensive research, Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam combined the Devanagari ‘Ra’ for rupiah and the Roman ‘R’ for rupees to ...

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." ...