The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has decided to remove the official rupee symbol (₹) from the state’s Budget 2025, replacing it with the Tamil script. This marks the first time a state has ...

Amid the tussle over language and Hindi imposition with the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26 ...

The designer of the rupee symbol (₹) has reacted to the controversy over the Tamil Nadu government replacing the sign with the Tamil letter "Ru" in promotional material for the state budget.

The Tamil government's decision to replace the Indian rupee symbol with a new logo - Tamil alphabet 'Ru' - has triggered a massive political controversy amid the ongoing language battle.

The BJP walked out of the Tamil Nadu state assembly to protest CM MK Stalin's decision to change the rupee symbol in the logo for the Budget 2024-26. The Bharatiya Janata Party, along with other ...

A recent political spat over the non-use of the rupee symbol by the Tamil Nadu government was not only tasteless but something that could have been avoided. It turned out to be just a so much ado ...

IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who designed the Indian rupee symbol, distanced himself from the controversy over Tamil Nadu's decision to replace the Devanagari symbol with a Tamil letter ...

Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, designer of the Indian rupee symbol, responded to controversy over Tamil Nadu's decision to replace it with the Tamil letter 'Ru'. Criticism came from BJP's K Annamalai ...

Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday (March 13, 2025) refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a ...

After a row erupted over the Tamil Nadu government dropping the Devanagari rupee symbol and replacing the sign with the Tamil letter "Ru" in promotional material for its state budget, Professor D ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday stated that replacing the rupee symbol (₹) with the Tamil letters that form the sound “ru” – from “rupai” (rupees in Tamil ...