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

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 — 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 ...

India is to have a new symbol for its currency, the rupee, after the government approved the winning entry in a national competition. The symbol is a cross between the Roman letter R and its Hindi ...

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 ...

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 announced on ...

“It’s probably more aspirational,” he adds, but “in 1990, if India said we’ll have a rupee symbol, people would have laughed at it. Today, people are asking how important it is.” ...

India has finally got a symbol for its currency, the rupee. The government announced it had selected one of five short-listed designs it hopes will become as recognisable as the shorthand for the ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have elected a new pope to succeed Pope Francis and take charge of the Roman Catholic ...

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.

A row has erupted in Tamil Nadu after the MK Stalin government in the state replaced the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for 'Ru' in the state budget logo. The development comes amid the ...

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 ...