Police in India say they have arrested a shopkeeper for axing to death a couple from a lower caste for not promptly paying a debt of 15 rupees (20 cent) for groceries.

IN THE two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters.

INDIA’S untouchables, reeling from the tsunami disaster, are being forced out of relief camps by higher caste survivors and being denied aid supplies, activists charged yesterday.