COONOOR (India), April 21: Indian and Chinese officials held a second day of talks here on Saturday to try and find a solution to a decades-old border dispute, an Indian official said, but there was little sign of progress.

The two delegations reached the picturesque Coonoor resort town in the southern Tamil Nadu state on Saturday morning and went into talks soon afterwards, the official said.

This is the 10th round of talks between the two sides since India and China appointed special representatives in 2003 to speed up a resolution to the border dispute which is a legacy of the brief but bitter 1962 conflict.

Security was tight as the teams headed by Indian National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo arrived here, said the official who declined to give any details of talks.

The two sides held a preliminary round of talks in New Delhi on Friday ahead of courtesy calls on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee.

India claims China occupies 38,000 square kilometres of its territory, while Beijing claims 90,000 square kilometres of the remote Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.—AFP