15:34⇢Nationwide UPI Payment System Crashes
⌨The newspapers report extensively on a nationwide UPI (Unified Payments Interface) outage, with users unable to make payments through popular apps like Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm, generating over 23,000 complaints in an hour (ABP Live, Dainik Bhaskar, Jagran, Zee News). Other news includes Bihar's RJD and Congress working to repair their coalition relationship (Aaj Tak), potential price increases for government-controlled medicines including cancer drugs and antibiotics (India Today), and international coverage of The Atlantic magazine publishing Signal chats revealing planned US bombing times for Yemen (NDTV, The Hindu, Firstpost).