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 ...

New symbol gives Indian rupee an international face, captures Indian ethos and culture As India's economy grows and its ambition to make a mark on the global scene rises, the country has decided that ...

India is to have a new symbol for its currency, the rupee, after the government approved the winning entry in a national competition. The symbol is a cross between the Roman letter R and its Hindi ...

Update: Murthy informs MediaNama that the Rupee Symbol has also been accepted at the ISCII (Indian Script Code For Information Interchange) The Indian Rupee symbol needs to be stored at text, not as a ...

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 "Om" symbol is sacred in Indian culture and is commonly used in religious documents. It represents the essence of the ...

MUMBAI: Businessmen may blame global troubles or inept governance, but a Hindu guru has an alternative theory for the historic weakness of India's rupee: the newly adopted symbol for the currency is ...

New Delhi: The Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol -- a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' -- joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in having ...