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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...