Saturday’s outage was the second such occurrence in April, 2025
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The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) informed late Saturday night that the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) have been stable since late afternoon and that they continue to monitor the situation closely. Earlier around noon, the payments interface was host to “intermittent technical issues” which were resulting in transactions being declined. This was across several banks and platforms.
Saturday’s outage was the second such occurrence in April. This is excluding the interruption on April 1 wherein banks and payment platforms experienced procedural issues owing to technical adjustments with the closing of the financial year. The other outage took place on April 2. Users of the UPI payments server of some banks had experienced some latency for a brief period of time. Services were however restored in both instances.
Outage monitoring website Downdetector – that relies on self-reporting of such occurrences from concerned users, pointed to the outage first being observed around 11:30 a.m. The numbers peaked around 1 p.m. by when about 2,400 people had reported about experiencing inconvenience. The reports however start shrinking around 3 p.m.
Published – April 12, 2025 11:40 pm IST
