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 Sun News-Pictorial the two tabloids in 1925. Murdoch closed the afternoon rival "The Evening Sun". In 1928, Murdoch became managing director of the HWT, by which time "The Sun News-Pictorial" was on its way to becoming Australia's highest-selling newspaper. An early editor, who has been given much of the credit for the paper's success, was (later Sir) Lloyd Dumas. "The Sun News-Pictorial"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main competitors were the broadsheets, "The Argus" and "The Age". "The Argus" was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne that had been published since 1846 and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely