Well-known international auctioning house Christies in France has halted the sale of a 500-year-old Nataraj idol, stolen from a Tamil Nadu temple in 1972, after the state police flagged the issue.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the Tamil Nadu government’s move to replace the rupee symbol (₹) with Tamil letters in the logo for the 2025-’26 state Budget ...