diff --git a/web_programming/crawl_hindustan_times_and_get_top_news.py b/web_programming/crawl_hindustan_times_and_get_top_news.py
index 1c4398ddb..1d5d727bb 100644
--- a/web_programming/crawl_hindustan_times_and_get_top_news.py
+++ b/web_programming/crawl_hindustan_times_and_get_top_news.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """
-Fetch all the top headlines from Hindustan Times News website with title, link to the news article
-and cover image link.
+Fetch all the top headlines from Hindustan Times News website with
+title, link to the news article and cover image link.
 
 The following format is used while displaying the data
 
@@ -17,18 +17,19 @@ import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 
-def fetch_ht_news():
+def fetch_ht_news() -> dict:
+
     header = {
         "Accept": "image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8",
         "Sec-GPC": "1",
-        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36""",
         "sec-ch-ua": '"Not)A;Brand";v="99", "Brave";v="127", "Chromium";v="127"',
         "sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
         "sec-ch-ua-platform": "Windows",
     }
 
     url = "https://www.hindustantimes.com/"
-    page_request = requests.get(url, headers=header)
+    page_request = requests.get(url, headers=header, timeout=10)
     data = page_request.content
     soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ def fetch_ht_news():
             imgtag = divtag.find("img")
             try:
                 img = imgtag["data-src"]
-            except Exception:
+            except KeyError:
                 img = imgtag["src"]
             news[counter] = {"title": title, "link": link, "img": img}
             counter += 1