Indian student wins US scholarship, to receive $10,000 for college tuition
Mentored by a senior scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu, Nasir Ul Rasheed, under the Jigyasa Hackathon initiative, the innovation of Bamrah, a class 12 student of Dalhousie Public School, stood out among thousands of global applicants, earning him one of the five coveted scholarships awarded worldwide this year, according to the statement.
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