The Tamil Nadu government, amid a battle with the Centre over Hindi imposition in the state, let go of the rupee symbol ( ₹) in its budget 2025 logo. Interestingly, the designer of the symbol hails ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The rupee (₹) symbol was introduced less than 15 years ago, chosen from thousands of designs. Incidentally, the design that was selected was created by the son of a former DMK MLA ...

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

After releasing the first-ever economic survey for the state, Chief Minister MK Stalin, in a social media post, displayed the ...

Stalin further noted that many people continue to use 'Rs' instead of 'Re' in English documents without any objections.

If DMK opposes ‘₹’ now, why didn’t it protest in 2010 when it was adopted under the Cong-led UPA, with DMK as part of the ruling alliance at the Centre?

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticized the DMK government's decision to replace the rupee symbol with the Tamil alphabet 'Ru' in budget documents. She argued it undermines a national ...