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 Udhayakumar ... row after the Tamil Nadu government chose to use a Tamil letter in its new logo. Asked whether he felt offended because the same party has now decided ...

Unlike the budgets of 2022-23 and 2023-24, which prominently featured the Rupee symbol, this year's logo conspicuously omits it. Notably, the Rupee symbol was designed by an IIT-Guwahati professor ...

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

Guwahati, Mar 13 (PTI) Hours after the Tamil Nadu government released a new rupee logo for the state budget, IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday ...

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 ...

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the 18th Century. During this time, paper money was first issued in British Ind ...

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.

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has sparked controversy by replacing the Indian Rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in the logo for its 2025-26 budget. The move has drawn criticism from the state BJP, ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin defended the use of the Tamil letter for 'ru' in the state's budget, citing Nirmala ...

D Udaya Kumar, the son of former DMK MLA N. Dharmalingam. D Udaya Kumar, a professor at IIT Guwahati, designed the Indian rupee symbol in 2010 during the Manmohan Singh administration. He is the son ...