Google Pay, Paytm, PhonePe down: UPI outage disrupts digital payments across country; 3rd this month

Digital payment services were disrupted across the country on Saturday due to a significant outage in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system.

Users from across the country reported issues through social media and monitoring platforms, noting that widely-used apps such as Paytm, PhonePe, and Google Pay were not functioning properly. The outage created widespread inconvenience, especially for those relying on UPI for routine transactions like shopping, paying bills, and transferring money.