Mangaluru : Jackfruit festival tickled taste buds
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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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
