UPI down again: Google Pay, Paytm, PhonePe hit amid widespread disruption

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Despite Saturday’s widespread disruption, NPCI has yet to issue an official statement addressing the reason behind the latest outage.

According to Downdetector, which tracks real-time service disruptions based on user reports, the issue began around 11:26 am and peaked at 11:41 am, with more than 222 reports flooding in.

This is the sixth major UPI outage in the past year, following two disruptions in March and April.

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Topics: UPI payment issues NPCI service disruption UPI service downtime Digital payments failure UPI down April 2025 Google Pay issues UPI transaction failures UPI technical issue Paytm disruption UPI outage PhonePe problems RBI UPI updates India payment system outage

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Published On: 2025-04-12 @ 13:09:59 (1 days ago)

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