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Tracing ₹'s roots: History, design, adoption and controversies; how rupee symbol came to be
Amid the tussle over language and Hindi imposition with the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26 ...
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Currency, the ‘roo’ of all problems: DMK’s Tamil symbol for rupee in budget logo sparks BJP backlash
The Tamil symbol for the rupee has since 2003 been in the Unicode, the global character encoding standard. However, though several countries in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region call their ...