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 ...

The rupee sign controversy was triggered by state BJP president K. Annamalai, who found something remiss in a promotional ...

The Tamil Nadu government has long been at odds with the Centre over language policies, with repeated accusations that the Union government is attempting to impose Hindi.