Broke Sri Lanka out of paper, exams cancelled

Police officers try to stop demonstrators during a protest against rising living costs, outside the offices of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo on Friday. (AFP Photo)

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has cancelled exams for millions of students as the country has run out of printing paper and is short on dollars to finance imports, officials said on Saturday.

Education authorities said the tests, scheduled for March 28, would be postponed indefinitely due to an acute paper shortage as the country contends with its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948.