Mangaluru, July 15: Mangalurians have a special Sunday today to taste the taste jackfruit payasam, ice cream, bajji and other food items at a jackfruits festival organized by the Organic Farmers Consumers Forum at Balambhat Auditorium here.

The jackfruits festival is attracting people in large number since morning. Exhibition and sales of different varieties of jackfruits, food items made out of jackfruits, sales of saplings of fruits and flowers and decorative plants was also organized on the occasion. Fruits lovers tasted the different food items made out of jackfruits and enjoyed. Payasam made out of jackfruits seeds, ice creams, halva, holige, papad, podi, bajji, gatti and other items made from jackfruits attracted the people.

People also purchased different varieties of jackfruit like Tuluva, Barke, Rudrakshi, Chandra and others on the occasion.

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Vilnius (AP/PTI): A DHL cargo plane crashed Monday morning near the Lithuanian capital.

The Lithuanian airport authority identified the aircraft as a “DHL cargo plane flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius Airport.”

It posted on the social platform X that city services including a fire truck were on site.

DHL Group, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, did not immediately return a call for comment.