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+"""
+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
+
+news = {
+        0: {
+            "title": <title-of-the-article>,
+            "link": <link-to-the-news-article>,
+            "img": <link-to-the-cover-image>
+        }
+}
+"""
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+
+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",
+        "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, timeout=10)
+    data = page_request.content
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
+
+    news = {}
+
+    counter = 0
+
+    for divtag in soup.find_all("div", {"class": "timeAgo"}):
+        if "liveStory" not in divtag["class"]:
+            head = divtag.find(class_="hdg3")
+            title = head.get_text()
+            link = divtag["data-weburl"]
+            imgtag = divtag.find("img")
+            try:
+                img = imgtag["data-src"]
+            except KeyError:
+                img = imgtag["src"]
+            news[counter] = {"title": title, "link": link, "img": img}
+            counter += 1
+
+    return news
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    fetch_ht_news()