Үндістанның «Сиасат» газеті

Indian Urdu language newspaper

The Siasat Daily is an Indian newspaper published by the Siasat Press based in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana. It operates the digital news website Siasat and is the publisher of the Siasat English Weekly magazine and the Siasat Urdu Daily newspaper whose editions are also available as electronic papers. The editions of the paper were formerly published by the Intekhab Press. The Intekhab Press continues to publish editions of the Siasat Urdu Daily. The publication has an advertising partnership with The Hindu, Eenadu and Daily Hindi Milap. It also operates the website dedicated to the writings of satirist Mujtaba Hussain, who was a columnist of the paper.

Following the annexation of Hyderabad by the Republic of India, The Siasat Daily was founded as an Urdu language newspaper by Abid Ali Khan and Mahboob Husain Jigar on 15 August 1949. The founders are described to have been Indian nationalists with the intent of "informing objectively to the population of the state, on local, national and international developments." After Abid Ali's death in 1992, his son Zahid Ali Khan took over the reins of the family run daily. In 1998, the paper launched its own digital website. It was reported to have been among the first newspapers to adopt e paper formats along with the likes of Dinamalar (Tamil), Andhra Jyothi (Telugu), Lokmat (Marathi), etc. According to the National Readership Survey in 2003, the publication had a total readership of approximately 326,000. The 2005 ABC figures and the 2006 Registrar figures however notes the print circulation of the paper to have been 42,869 and 41,597 respectively. as of 2011, the monthly pageviews of the Siasat website was estimated to be 4.23 million. Following the death of satirist and columnist Mujtaba Hussain on 27 May 2020, the publication launched a website named after him in commemoration, which features the whole body of work including correspondences, lectures, etc by the literary figure. The paper has also been a proponent of the usage of colloquial Hindi over the standardised forms of formal Urdu or Hindi.

The Daily Siasat is engaged in a number of philanthropic endeavours funded from the publication's own funds as well as through donation drives from readers; primarily focusing on improving literacy in both vernacular (Telugu & Urdu Hindi) and English, especially among women.