Budget carrier IndiGo Wednesday put as many as 10 lakh seats up for sale for all-inclusive fares starting at Rs 899 under the Diwali sale offer.

Effective October 24 till October 26 IndiGo is offering customers all-inclusive fares starting from Rs 899, the airline said in a statement.

The low-cost carrier is offering 10 lakh seats for a travel period between November 8 and April 15, 2019, it added.

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This is the third time in the current fiscal that IndiGo, which posted its first quarterly loss at Rs 652.1 crore in the quarter ended September, has put 10 lakh or more seats up for grabs at heavily discounted fares.

 Jet to start Singapore-Pune flights from December. Naresh Goyal-owned cash-strapped Jet Airways Wednesday announced the launch of a direct flight service to Singapore from Pune, starting December 1.

Besides, it will also add a third service from New Delhi to Singapore to cater to the increasing demand on the route, Jet Airways said in a release.

The Mumbai-based airline has also announced special inaugural return economy class fares at Rs 23,999 and Rs 66,999 for the business class for the new flight.

These inaugural fares are applicable for journeys commencing from December onwards, it said adding customers can also avail of special fares to onward destinations such Brisbane, Jakarta, Denpasar-Bali, Phuket, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Nadi, Perth, Surabaya, Sydney and Darwin via Singapore.

 Kilitch Drugs plans to start mfg operations in Ethiopia * Kilitch Drugs, a listed pharmaceutical Indian exporter is set to boost its expansion plans in Africa with its first manufacturing plant in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia.

The manufacturing plant has completed about 60 per cent of its the construction, and production from the Kilitch's first plant is likely to commence from next financial year, a company statement said.

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It expects to generate a revenue of Rs 500 crore in next 5 years as it is bullish on the African markets.

With the sole concentration on its upcoming plant, the management will look forward to replicating the Ethiopian model to the rest of Africa.