New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- The car bomb blast near the Red Fort in the Capital in November 2025 has been "officially attributed" to al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which is also trying to establish cells in Bangladesh, according to a new report from a UN Security Council body monitoring counter-terrorism sanctions.

The biannual report from the Security Council's monitoring team for sanctions on al-Qaeda and Islamic State, made public this week, noted that both terror groups have "shown a sustained interest over many years in developing chemical and biological weapons". The report noted at the end of 2025, Indian authorities had arrested three people, including a doctor, who had been tasked by an Islamic State cell abroad to develo...