The Siasat Daily is an Indian newspaper published by the Siasat Press based in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana. It operates the Hindi-Urdu and English language 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 former columnist at The Siasat Daily. History Following the annexation of Hyderabad by the Republic of India, The Siasat Daily was founded as an Urdu language newspaper by Jigar Saheb and Abid Ali Khan 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." The paper was contrasted with the sister publications of Hind Samachar (Urdu) and Punjab Kesari (Hindi) which were founded around the same time as the Siasat. While the Hind Samachar Group had quickly expanded across and beyond Punjab with editions in Hindi and Punjabi, working through an unified newsroom with "Dickensian discipline", the Siasat is described to have been on a "civilising mission", had a "friendly and family like" newsroom with minimal profit motives and exempt of the reliance on advertisements. The paper would continue to rely only on Urdu editions without expanding into regions beyond Hyderabad or to other more profitable languages until much later. Despite this, between 1976–1996 the daily circulation of the publication's editions had reportedly increased by 330% from approximately 10,000 to 44,000. , the paper has continued to uninterruptedly use the format of wall newspapers to publicise its editions in the city of Hyderabad since the day of first publication. 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. While according to the Registrar of Newspapers for India, the print circulation of the paper was reduced to 25,732