Mumbai, May 8 -- Indian automakers have for the first time reported zero local sales in April as factories and dealerships across the country remained shut to comply with a stringent lockdown. For comparison, nearly 250,000 vehicles were sold in the domestic market in April 2019. Indian automakers count the dispatch of vehicles from factories to dealers as sales. However, as ports resumed operations, some manufacturers managed to restart exports. The country's top carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, and other top manufacturers such as Hyundai Motor India Ltd, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M), Toyota Kirloskar Motor India Pvt. Ltd, MG Motor India Pvt. Ltd all reported zero local sales. "Maruti Suzuki had zero sales in the domestic market in Apr...