[1][2][3] Initially an evening paper, it became a morning daily on 1 May 1949.
[5][6][7] TOCL was nationalised by the Sri Lankan government in August 1977.
[1] The state-run TOCL faced financial and labour problems and on 31 January 1985 it and its various publications closed down.
[1] Ranjith Wijewardena, chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) before it was nationalised in July 1973, bought the trade names and library of the TOCL publications in 1986.
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