♦ The fourth conference of global intelligence and security chiefs was held in New Delhi on 16 March 2025.

♦ This was hosted by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Around 20 countries were represented at the conference, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Russia.

♦ U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attended the meeting and also held talks with Doval. 

♦ The chiefs of the Five Eyes countries, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., were all present, though it was not clear if a separate meeting of the Five Eyes chiefs with Mr. Doval was in the offing.

♦ The conference was held for the first time in April 2022 a day before the start of the Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on “geopolitics and geo-strategy”, organised by the Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).