Sri Lanka activists stage protest against India's PM Modi

Hundreds of activists protested in the Sri Lankan

capital on Tuesday against India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urging the island to step up post-war reconciliation with ethnic minority Tamils.

The pro-government protesters waved placards that read "Modi don't be foolish" and shouted anti-Modi slogans outside the Indian High Commission - the de facto embassy - in Colombo over the Prime Minister's comments made last month.

The protesters accused Mr Modi, who swept to power with a landslide election win in May, of interfering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs.

The activists, led by the National Freedom Front, a coalition partner in President Mahinda Rajapakse's government, also targeted the Chief Minister of India's southern Tamil Nadu state, Ms Jayalalitha Jayaram.