India and China have agreed to resume direct air services after nearly five years, India's foreign ministry said on Monday, signalling a thaw in relations between the neighbours after a deadly 2020 military clash on their disputed Himalayan border.

China and India have agreed to resume direct flights, facilitate visas and restart sharing data of trans-border rivers as the nuclear-armed neighbors try to rebuild diplomatic ties that remained frosty for more than four years.

India and China on Monday decided to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra as the two sides agreed to take certain people-centric steps to "stabilise and rebuild" ties.

India and China have agreed to resume direct air services between the two countries, New Delhi said in a statement on Monday after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited Beijing.

Recalling the agreement between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Kazan in October, the MEA said that the two sides “reviewed the state of India-China bilateral relations comprehensively” and “agreed to take certain people-centric steps to stabilize and rebuild ties”.

The ministry of external affairs said this on Monday following foreign secretary Vikram Misri's talks with his Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong in Beijing

India and China agree to restart Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in 2025, along with direct air services & hydrological data cooperation, marking improved bilateral ties.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited Beijing on January 26-27 to attend a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Foreign Minister mechanism between India and China on.