India, April 2 -- In the second major outage in less than a week, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) went down for several users across the country today.

As per outage tracker DownDetector, users began to flag issues with UPI around 6:39 PM. However, the outage peaked around 7:24 PM, when more than 534 reports poured in about issues with the payments infrastructure.

As per social media platform X, many users faced difficulties with making payments on third-party platforms like PhonePe, Google Pay, among others. "Looks like UPI is down again!!" a user said.

Meanwhile, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) confirmed the development and attributed the outage to "increased latency" in the UPI network. Without specifying whether ...