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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NEW DELHI: The Indian rupee will join the dollar, yen, euro and pound with its own symbol. The new currency icon is an amalgam of the ...

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 ...

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

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.

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Friday termed Hindi as the symbol of socio-political and linguistic unity of the country and pitched for the translation of literature of regional languages into it.

New Delhi: The Indian rupee will have its own symbol, a mix of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R', to become the fifth currency in the world to have a distinct identity.

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 ...

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 ...

We identify major world currencies with symbols. 'til today, the Indian rupee didn't have one of its own. In 2009, designers were invited to participate in a national competition, "to come up with a ...

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 ...