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 ...

My father was an MLA even before I was born. Now, he is old and living in our village, leading his life peacefully. It just happened to be a coincidence, says Udaya Kumar.

IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, the creator of India’s official rupee symbol “₹,” has distanced himself from the controversy surrounding the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to replace the ...

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 in ...

IIT Guwahati Professor D. Udaya Kumar discusses Tamil Nadu's new rupee logo, designed by him, amid controversy.

The logo for the Tamil Nadu budget, carried ‘ru’, the first letter of Tamil word 'Rubaai', which denotes Indian currency in the vernacular language.

symbol was designed by Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam ... Nirmala Sitharaman slammed the DMK government in Tamil Nadu over the rupee symbol row, questioning why they did not oppose it back in 2010 ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin replaced the rupee symbol with a Tamil script in the state budget amidst a controversy over 'Hindi imposition.' The rupee symbol was originally designed by Tamilian ...

After Tamil Nadu introduced a new rupee 'Ru' symbol on its state budget, IIT Guwahati professor Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, the designer of the official Indian rupee symbol, expressed surprise over the ...

A row has erupted in Tamil Nadu after the MK Stalin government in the state replaced the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for 'Ru' in the state budget logo. The development comes amid the ongoing ...