Total sales across categories rose 4 per cent to 17,09,610 units in October, as against 16,38,832 units in the same month last year.

Sales of Jaguar brand were at 10,606 units during the month, down 22.9 per cent from October 2018

The Alibaba Group's various shopping platforms' total GMV exceeded USD 10 billion in just 29:45 seconds.

Domestic car sales were down 6.34 per cent to 1,73,649 units as against 1,85,400 units in October 2018

Alibaba netted sales worth USD 30 billion on its platforms on Singles’ Day last year, dwarfing the USD 7.9 billion.

The nine cities covered in the study included Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Thane and Chennai.

Sales in Bengaluru, too, went down by 9 per cent to 9,843 units from 10,816 units.

The company had sold 58,416 units in the corresponding month last year, M&M said in a regulatory filing.

Two wheelers and three wheelers, were expected to decline by 6-7 pc this fiscal as compared with 2018-19 to around 25 million units.

The company had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 2,280.2 crore in the same period a year ago.