Ricky Gill, Saurabh Sharma, and Kush Desai are appointed to significant roles in President Donald Trump's administration. Gill is the senior director for South and Central Asia in the NSC, Sharma is joining the Presidential personnel office, and Desai is the deputy press secretary in the White House communications team.
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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 its budget logo. The state government's move is part of a larger language policy dispute with the central government. Kumar emphasized the autonomy of state decisions.
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