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

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 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.

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 ...

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.

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." ...

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 Indian rupee (not to be confused with the rupee from “The Legend of Zelda”) has changed its currency symbol, some media organization called the BBC reports. Not only does it look cool, but ...

For Indians used to seeing the dollar symbol on the keyboard, this will be a welcome change. It will be just a matter of a few months for India's new rupee symbol to be a part of the software code ...

India's new Rupee symbol won't show soon on computers It will take at least 18 months for encoding the symbol in Unicode, the government says. By John Ribeiro.

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 ...