The Indian government has announced that the new Rupee symbol has now been encoded into Unicode Standard and National Standard ISCII system and will also have a fixed location on the keyboard.

The hype behind India's announcement of a new rupee symbolis starting to fade, but the designer behind it has been receiving praise from around the world. The government hopes the distinctive new ...

The Indian Finance Ministry unveiled its choice for the new Rupee symbol today–and it’s an amalgam of both Eastern and Western letters, using the Devanagari “Ra” and Roman capital “R.” India’s ...

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UPDATE: India’s cabinet has selected its winner for the national currency symbol, beating out five other finalists in a national contest to determine the new graphic. India has long lacked a symbol ...

Vendors of computers, mobile phones, and software say they will support the symbol for the Indian rupee that was approved by the Indian cabinet on Thursday. Vendors of computers, mobile phones, and ...

Adding fuel to the ongoing language debate in India, the Tamil Nadu government has replaced the official Indian rupee symbol '₹' with the Tamil letter 'ரூ' as the logo for its state budget. This came ...

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government approved a symbol for the rupee, an attempt to give its currency a unique identity as the country seeks to expand its financial influence. The search for the rupee's ...

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 letter in ...