The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) chairman of Wijeya Newspapers Ltd, purchased the company which was under liquidation, in 1986. However, the newspaper "The Sunday Times" came into being in 1991. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) The Sunday Times is a weekly Sri Lankan broadsheet initially published by the now defunct Times Group, until 1991, when it was taken over by Wijeya Newspapers. The paper features articles of journalists such as defence columnist Iqbal Athas and Ameen Izzadeen. The daily counterpart of the Sri Lankan "Sunday Times" is the Daily Mirror. The first "Times" newspaper, "Ceylon Times" was established in 1846. The Times of Ceylon Ltd,
The Sunday Times or controversial stories published in "The Sunday Times" include: In July 2011, "The Sunday Times" was implicated in the wider News International phone hacking scandal which primarily involved the "News of the World", a Murdoch tabloid newspaper published in the UK from 1843 to 2011. Former British prime minister Gordon Brown accused "The Sunday Times" of employing "known criminals" to impersonate him and obtain his private financial records. Brown's bank reported that an investigator employed by "The Sunday Times" repeatedly impersonated Brown to gain access to his bank account records. "The Sunday Times" vigorously denied these accusations and said that