Mr Kumar's design was chosen from 3,000 entries submitted nationwide, and he received an award of Rs 2.5 lakh. The symbol is ...

Tamil Nadu government replaces national rupee symbol with Tamil script in Budget 2025 amid language controversy.

Chennai: Professor D. Udaya Kumar, the IIT Guwahati academic who designed the official ₹ (rupee) symbol, has distanced ...

IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who designed the Indian rupee symbol, distanced himself from the controversy over Tamil ...

The man behind the iconic rupee symbol design is D. Udaya Kumar, an Indian academic and designer with a passion for typography and graphic design. Kumar's design for the rupee symbol is a blend of the ...

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has sparked controversy by replacing the Indian Rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in the logo ...

A day before Tamil Nadu Budget 2025-26, Chief Minister MK Stalin released financial statement of the state replacing the ...

His creation, which incorporates elements from the Devanagari 'Ra' and the Roman 'R,' was officially adopted as the national currency symbol in 2010 under the Manmohan Singh-led government ...

Chief Minister Stalin has been vocal about protecting the Tamil language, describing it as not just a language but a symbol ...

The rupee symbol was designed by Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, an IIT professor and the son of a former DMK MLA. This gave the ...

This marks the first time a state has rejected the national currency symbol, taking Tamil Nadu's resistance to the NEP to a ...

The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday released its new logo for the State Finance Budget slated to be released on Friday, ...