Bengali filmmaker Goutam Ghose’s Moner Manush, has won the Golden Peacock at the 41st edition of the IFFI 2010, becoming the first Indian film in the past decade to win the top prize.

Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair’s ambitious project Shantaram, which was to be produced by Hollywood star Johnny Depp, has been shelved for now.

Jay Bajaj’s short environmental film The man who saved the Taj Mahal is being screened at the ongoing 41st International Film festival of India.

The Goa government, along with the Entertainment Society of Goa, who are the organisers of the ongoing International Film Festival of India, are going all out to woo filmmakers.

WITH A line up of over 70 films, a smattering of Bollywood mini-celebrities and several regional and foreign film crews, the first two days at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) have been

West is West producer Leslee Udwin on Tuesday said she was disappointed to see nearly 40 per cent of the audience walk out of the screening of the film at the start of 41st International Film Festival

Fish markets and fishing jetties across the state wore a deserted look today as the fishing community went on a day-long strike to protest the draft coastal regulation zone notification.

Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The NCP MLA alleged that he was beaten up by supporters of fellow party leader and Goa revenue minister Jose Philip D’Souza late on Tuesday night. Mr D’Souza, on the other hand, said that Mr Pacheco was distributing large amounts of cash in his constituency (Vasco) to sabotage the upcoming civic body polls there.

A tanker carrying 6,000 litres of highly inflammable aviation turbine fuel turned turtle on the Goa airport runway, forcing its partial closure and affecting operations.

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by an unidentified youth at the Miramar beach in Goa earlier this week, said the Panaji police, adding that the girl’s mother registered a complaint