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 ...

Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, IIT Guwahati professor and son of a former DMK MLA, designed the Indian rupee symbol 15 years ago in 2010.

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 ...

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 ...

DMK replaced the Rupee symbol with Tamil symbol 'Ru' in its state budget. The logo for the budget, released by the government on Thursday carried 'Ru', the first letter of the Tamil word 'Rubaai' ...

Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, designer of the Indian rupee symbol, responded to controversy over Tamil Nadu's decision to replace it with the Tamil letter 'Ru'. Criticism came from BJP's K Annamalai, ...

D Udaya Kumar, a design expert who had visualized the ₹ symbol as part of a contest back in 2009, spoke to NDTV over the controversy after the state BJP chief flagged a Tamilian had designed the ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday strongly condemned the DMK government's act of substituting the ...