Very soon, the Indian Rupee too will get a distinct identity -- an identification symbol -- like the world's major currencies (Dollar, Pound Sterling, Yen and the Euro) have. The Indian government ...

THE Indian rupee will join the dollar, yen, euro and pound with its own unique symbol. The new currency symbol is an amalgam of the character for ''Ra'' in the ancient Devanagari script used in ...

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 ...

The £ is a crossed L (for Librum, the Latin word for weight or pound), the $ a crossed S (for Spanish dollar), the ¥ a crossed Y (for Yen) and the € a crossed E (for Euro). The symbol for a rupee ...

the authorities are poised to reveal the results of competition to design a symbol for the national currency, the rupee, and in doing so, emulate the pound, the euro, the dollar and the yen.

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 ...

The United States dollar has its symbol, $. So does the British pound, £; the Japanese yen, ¥; and the Euro, €. But not the Indian rupee, until now. The Indian government launched a ...

Only a small group of currencies currently bear their own symbols: the dollar, the British pound, the yen and the euro among them. To date, the Indian rupee has been simply stated as Rs or INR. The ...

The symbol for a rupee should, therefore, be a crossed R (or whichever Indian character is equivalent to a letter R). To be honest, ten years after the introduction of the Euro I still struggle to ...