India, Aug. 8 -- The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) blamed internal technical issues at a "few" partner banks for the widespread UPI outage yesterday.

In a post on X, the payments body said that the issue has now been fixed, adding that NPCI systems were "working fine".

"Regret inconvenience on intermittent UPI connectivity issues as few of the banks were having some internal technical problems. NPCI systems have been working fine and we have worked with these banks to ensure quick resolution," read the post.

This follows a major UPI that impacted digital payments across the country and left users unable to avail instant payments.

As per outage tracking platform DownDetector, nearly 200 users reported problems with the ...