India, April 12 -- A major technical glitch disrupted Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services across India on Saturday morning, marking the third significant outage in the past 30 days.

Users across leading digital payment apps, including Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm, were unable to complete transactions, causing widespread inconvenience to both individuals and businesses.

According to DownDetector, a website that monitors outages, 2,147 complaints were reported by 12.56 pm, with nearly 80% of users experiencing issues during payment attempts. Earlier in the day, 1,168 complaints had already been logged, highlighting the growing frustration among users.

Saturday's disruption impacted a broad range of financial institutions, includin...