As per the Indian Constitution, currency is in the Union list. By extension, therefore, its symbol, too, is in the domain of the central government. Ergo, what the Tamil Nadu government has done is a ...

Rupee strengthens against dollar, tracking Asian peers; global trade concerns weigh on investors, impacting economic outlook.

A political row over the linguistic origin of the ‘ ₹’ symbol mustn’t distract us from the need to ensure that India’s ...

Top leaders of the key opposition parties, the AIADMK and BJP, have been regularly pointing their fingers on something or the ...

The Tamil Nadu government, amid a battle with the Centre over Hindi imposition in the state, let go of the rupee symbol ( ₹) ...

Explainer: Tamil Nadu’s resistance to Hindi imposition is not new—it dates back to before India gained independence from the ...

The change of the worldwide recognised ₹ symbol to the Tamil Nadu language has created a massive political controversy.

His creation, which incorporates elements from the Devanagari 'Ra' and the Roman 'R,' was officially adopted as the national currency symbol in 2010 under the Manmohan Singh-led government ...

If DMK opposes ‘₹’ now, why didn’t it protest in 2010 when it was adopted under the Cong-led UPA, with DMK as part of the ruling alliance at the Centre?

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The Tamil Nadu government’s decision to replace the Rupee symbol (₹) with the Tamil letter "ரூ" in its budget logo has ...

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin's decision to replace the rupee symbol (₹) with the Tamil letter 'ரூ' in the state budget logo has sparked a political row, with the BJP highlighting that the dropped symbol ...