IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a DMK MLA.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, if the DMK has a problem with ''', why didn't it protest back in 2010 when it was officially adopted under the Congress-led UPA government, at a time when the ...