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UPI services experienced an outage on Thursday, causing payment difficulties for users across India.
UPI system. (Image: File Pic)
UPI Outage: Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services suffered an outage as several users across India reported difficulties in making payments on Thursday.
Several users said that they were unable to use UPI apps like Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, and other leading platforms to complete transactions.
As per Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, there were over 200 complaints from users with respect to the UPI outage by 8:30 pm.
Nearly 80% of these complaints cited issues while attempting payments.
The glitch disrupted transactions across major public and private banks, including HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, and Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben…Read More
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More
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