Hotline between Indian, Chinese PMs starts

NEW DELHI - The much talked about hotline between the Indian and Chinese prime ministers got operational “three or four days ago”, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said Thursday.

Rao made the announcement at a press conference after the conclusion of bilateral level talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and China’s Wen Jiabao whose three-day visit ends Friday.

“Our technical people have been working on it for some time,” she said. “It is between the prime ministers.”