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 Standard The Sunday Standard The Sunday Standard was an English-language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Standard Newspapers (Private) Limited, part of Communication and Business Equipment (Private) Limited (CBE). It was founded in 2007 and was published from Colombo. Its sister newspaper was the ‘’Mawbima’’. "The Sunday Standard" and its sister newspaper "Mawbima" were launched in August 2006. "The Sunday Standard" was a successor to "The Weekend Standard" which had been launched by businessman Tiran Alles in August 2005 to help the presidential campaign of Mahinda Rajapaksa. The newspaper was politically independent and exposed corruption, mismanagement and human rights violations