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- ↑ "Forty one years of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission". The Daily Star. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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- ↑ Bangladesh Quarterly. Department of Films & Publications, Government of Bangladesh. 2002. pp. 37–38.
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