UPI Down: Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm users across India report payment failures

On Thursday, a major outage hit Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services across India, causing widespread inconvenience for users and forcing businesses to urgently seek backup payment solutions. Data from outage monitoring site Downdetector shows that 62% of users experienced difficulties making payments, 29% ran into trouble while transferring funds, and 8% reported app-related malfunctions.

Leading banks such as HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, and Kotak Mahindra Bank were impacted by the outage.