The meetings are seen as part of ongoing efforts to expand collaboration in critical sectors, especially energy and security, which remain central to India-Saudi relations.
His remarks come after a media report alleged that NSA Doval visited the United States in September 2025 to hold talks for improving strained ties between India and US.
Calling for shaping an open and rules-based maritime environment, NSA Doval said, "We need to shape a favourable environment to nurture an open, inclusive maritime domain and conformity on a rule-based order."
"NSA Ajit Doval will host his counterparts from member states, including the Maldives, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday.
Gosal secured bail from the Ontario Central East Correctional Centre within a week and appeared in a video recorded outside the facility. "India, I'm out; to support Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, to organise the Khalistan referendum on November 23, 2025. Delhi banega Khalistan," he declared.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his Canadian counterpart Nathalie G Drouin met in New Delhi on Thursday as part of the regular bilateral security dialogue between the two sides.
Debunking the claims in international media, especially The New York Times, over the reportage on Operation Sindoor, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on Friday dared them to provide at least one single image to prove that India suffered damages in the conflict with Pakistan.
Doval said this while addressing a convocation ceremony at IIT Madras.
The meeting at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai earlier in the day last for an hour, sources said. The two had a ‘detailed and fruitful discussion on issues of national security concern’, the Raj Bhavan said in a post on ‘X’.
Doval asserted that perpetrators of terrorism should be effectively and expeditiously dealt with, including those involved in cross-border terrorism.
