PhonePe system faces outage due to technical glitch
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI): The country's biggest fintech firm PhonePe reported a technical glitch in its system that led to the failure of transactions on its platform.
PhonePe co-founder Rahul Chari said that the company at PhonePe has initiated active DR drills, with heightened cybersecurity measures on its network firewall.
"This evening, 100 per cent of our traffic across all our services was being served through a new data centre. Unfortunately, the Monday evening peak traffic exposed a network capacity shortfall due to which transactions started failing.
"We have now rebalanced our traffic across our other sites and are seeing the recovery. Our apologies for this. We assure to take these learnings and further strengthen our systems," he said.
According to the digital services outage tracker platform Downdetector, the report started coming in at around 6 pm IST and peaked around quarter part seven.
Several users across the country experienced transaction failures in UPI transactions but they confused it as a glitch in UPI system.
UPI system had earlier faced three outages between March 26 to April 12.
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4 workers die after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) (PTI): At least four workers died after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Moonidih coal washery in the command area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL).
"Bodies of all four workers were dug out of debris during a rescue operation," Putki police station in-charge Waqar Hussain told PTI.
The incident took place when coal slurry was being loaded into trucks by workers, during which a large chunk of slurry fell and trapped several workers underneath, officials said.
The deceased have been identified as Manik Bauri, Dinesh Bauri, Deepak Bauri, and Hemlal Gope.
Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased and local villagers placed the bodies in front of the washery gate and began a protest.
They demanded compensation, jobs for dependents and action against those responsible for the incident.
Police and administration officials are trying to pacify the protesters, an official said.
