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- ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Basant Kumar Misra, President NSI 2008" (PDF). Neurological Society of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2020.
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