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Major UPI app outage affects users across India | List of apps, service hit
UPI is a real-time payment system that facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions.
Updated on Apr 12, 2025 02:51 PM IST
UPI down for several users across India, third outage in 30 days
UPI down today: Users across leading digital payment apps, including Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm, were unable to complete transactions.
Updated on Apr 12, 2025 02:29 PM IST
Tech Tonic | From free to fee, UPI must balance pragmatism and sustainability
For how much longer can the government foot the bill? The assumption is, another revenue stream would enable banks and fintech firms to innovate.
Updated on Apr 04, 2025 12:17 PM IST
UPI down for several users; second outage in a week
UPI services were down across several apps on Wednesday.
Updated on Apr 02, 2025 08:31 PM IST
Income tax, GST, UPI, banking: 5 financial rules changing from April 1
A slew of new financial rule changes are to come into effect from April 1, 2025 onwards, impacting UPI users, credit card holders, and pensioners.
Published on Mar 31, 2025 10:53 AM IST
With UPI payments hit, social users narrate struggles: ‘Ice cream kha li, ab…’
Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services went down in India across multiple apps, causing chaos and several failed payments.
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 08:40 PM IST
UPI outage across India: Full list of apps where payment ops have been hit
The UPI services have become a staple in the Indian economy, with a huge penetration even in the rural parts of the country.
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 10:18 PM IST
Shivam Pratap Singh
UPI restored after brief outage, NPCI blames ‘intermittent technical issues’
The system faced temporary issue for about an hour or so and it was subsequently stabilised by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 10:23 PM IST
New UPI rule regarding mobile numbers to become effective from April 1 | Details
The new guideline is aimed at reducing transaction errors caused due to outdated or reassigned mobile numbers.
Published on Mar 26, 2025 01:19 PM IST
Pensioners may soon be able to make EPFO claims via UPI: Labour secretary
The EPFO has established a centralised database and after conducting necessary testing, the UPI frontend for EPFO claims may get rolled out by the end of May.
Published on Mar 26, 2025 10:22 AM IST
PhonePe, Google Pay UPI will stop working on these numbers from April 1
The NPCI announced that mobile numbers linked to UPI will be removed from bank accounts if they haven’t been active for a significant period of time.
Published on Mar 20, 2025 02:08 PM IST
For busy rail commuters, UPI makes smart cards passé
Smart cards, which comprised a popular mode of ticketing for suburban railway commuters wanting to jump long queues, are seeing a drop in usage
Published on Mar 17, 2025 07:04 AM IST
Govt may bring back merchant charges on UPI, RuPay-powered debit cards: Report
However, this may be for large merchants whose GST-based annual turnover is over ₹40 lakh.
Published on Mar 11, 2025 06:36 PM IST
20-yr-old student working part-time for Swiggy calls firm's insurance ‘useless’
The student's comments have once again highlighted how gig workers lack basic benefits while working.
Updated on Feb 26, 2025 09:02 PM IST
Ashley Paul
Google Pay introduces convenience fee for bill payments with cards: Report
This refers to bills such as electricity and cooking gas with the fees ranging from 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of the transaction value, along with GST.
Published on Feb 20, 2025 04:47 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan
PhonePe introduces credit and debit card tokenisation: Here's what it means
At the moment, PhonePe users will only be able to tokenize their Visa credit and debit cards.
Published on Feb 20, 2025 04:31 PM IST
Explained: What is the call merging scam and how can you stay safe
National Payments Corporation of India issued a warning about a new cyber fraud being used to steal money from users
Published on Feb 19, 2025 01:32 PM IST
UPI transactions to see changes from February 15: What are they?
NPCI, the body overlooking regulations linked to UPI transactions in India, has announced changes
Published on Feb 12, 2025 01:00 PM IST
Ashley Paul
Prepaid wallets keep women’s savings safe
This article is authored by Pallavi Madhok, advisory services, South Asia, Women’s World Banking, and Dilip Modi, founder and CEO, Spice Money.
Published on Feb 08, 2025 12:51 PM IST
Pallavi MadhokDilip Modi
NPCI bans special characters in UPI transaction IDs from February 1: Details
From February 1, NPCI will disallow special characters in UPI transaction IDs to standardise processes. This comes as UPI transactions hit record levels.
Updated on Jan 30, 2025 07:22 PM IST
How India will pay in 2025: Six key trends to watch out for
This article is authored by Deepak Chand Thakur, co-founder and CEO, NPST.
Updated on Jan 28, 2025 05:23 PM IST
UPI transactions touched record 16.73 billion in December 2024: NPCI data
The average daily transaction count during December was 539.68 million, up from 516.07 million in November.
Published on Jan 02, 2025 09:10 PM IST
PTI |
What is new ‘jumped deposit’ scam targeting UPI users? How to protect yourself
'Jumped deposit' scam is a new fraud which targets Unified Payments Interface (UPI) users, making them accidentally give access to withdraw money.
Updated on Jan 04, 2025 08:09 PM IST
Digital wallet payments can now be made using any UPI app
If you have money in a digital wallet such as Paytm or PhonePe, you can also use it to pay at shops or online without having to switch between different apps
Updated on Dec 30, 2024 04:33 PM IST
2025 personal finance updates: Key changes in UPI, visa, EPFO, credit card, FD
The year 2025 brings some personal finance changes to be planned ahead for including new rules for visa, credit card, EPFO, fixed deposits, UPI, and others
Updated on Jan 01, 2025 11:50 AM IST
UPI achieves record 15,000 crore transactions worth ₹223 Lakh Crore by Nov 2024
The Finance Ministry reported that UPI processed 15,547 crore transactions worth ₹223 lakh crore from January to November 2024.
_1653629830547_1734242852120.jpg "From January to November of this year, 15,547 crore transactions of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>223 lakh crore were made over the Unified Payments Interface (UPI),")
Updated on Dec 15, 2024 01:57 PM IST
RBI increases UPI Lite wallet limit to ₹5,000, transaction cap to ₹1,000
Currently, the upper limit of an offline payment transaction is ₹500 and the total limit for offline transactions on a payment instrument is ₹2,000.
Published on Dec 04, 2024 08:06 PM IST
UPI available for NRIs who want to make no-fee transactions with people in India
NRIs from countries like the US, Canada, UK, UAE, Singapore, Australia, and more can UPI to send money to family or make payments in India without any fees
Published on Nov 04, 2024 04:06 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan
Spanish president Pedro Sanchez uses UPI to purchase Lord Ganesha idol in Mumbai
Spanish president Pedro Sanchez is on a three-day visit in India. On Monday, he and his wife celebrated Diwali in Mumbai.
Published on Oct 29, 2024 04:09 PM IST
Adobe’s tryst with trustable AI, decoding editing workflows and PC market slows
If you are a Lightroom user, you’d probably appreciate the Adobe Adaptive profile more than those who aren’t.
Published on Oct 17, 2024 07:15 AM IST