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In a historic event, a five-member jury set up to finalise symbol for the rupee selected the design presented by IIT-ian D Udaya Kumar. The Union Cabinet approved the symbol on Thursday noon.

D. Udaya Kumar, the man who designed the rupee symbol, shared his thoughts on the Tamil Nadu government's decision to replace the official rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for 'ru' from 'rubai ...

The controversial move by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has brought attention to an ironic fact - the now-dropped rupee symbol by the state was designed by a Tamilian man, D Udaya Kumar.

Designed by D Udaya Kumar ... on ancient monetary system had helped him greatly in designing the present rupee symbol. Speaking to Express, he said “It is certainly not an overstatement.

The new symbol is an amalgam of the Devnagiri 'Ra' and the Roman capital 'R' without the stem. The Reserve Bank of India had announced the competition for a design of the rupee symbol with a cash ...

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The rupee symbol ‘₹’ was designed by Udaya Kumar, the son of a former DMK MLA and currently an IIT professor. The M.K. Stalin government has replaced the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter ...

The Indian government launched a competition to brand the rupee last year, and the winner, announced last week, is this symbol — whoops ... It was designed by D. Udaya Kumar to blend a portion ...

til today, the Indian rupee didn't have one of its own. In 2009, designers were invited to participate in a national competition, "to come up with a symbol ... picked the new design," which ...