Nationwide UPI outage disrupts PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm payments: NPCI says bank-level technical glitches
On Thursday, August 7, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services suffered a major nationwide disruption, leaving countless users unable to complete digital transactions and prompting businesses across India to turn to backup payment options. Based on figures from Downdetector, close to 200 UPI-related problems were logged during the disruption period. Among these, 61% of users struggled to complete payments, 30% experienced difficulties transferring money, and 9% said they were completely unable to access their UPI applications.
