| | | Twelve cheetahs- including seven males and five females from South Africa- arrived in India on Saturday, months after eight cheetahs were ferried from Namibia. The cheetahs were released in quarantine enclosures in Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and union forest minister Bhupendra Singh Yadav in the quarantine bomas. With the addition of 12 more cheetahs, the total number of cheetahs in Kuno has gone up to 20. | THE DAILY QUIZ Smriti Mandhana has sealed her place in cricket history as the most expensive player of the inaugural WPL (Women’s Premier League). Let’s join Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell and Virat Kohli in congratulating her. Which team is she going to bat for? a. Kolkata Knight Riders
b. Mumbai Indians
c. Chennai Super Kings
d. Royal Challengers Bangalore TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY 12 more cheetahs brought to India, released in Kuno At around 12 noon on Saturday, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released 12 cheetahs into the Kuno National Park in Sheopur, marking the culmination of the second leg of the much-watched intercontinental translocation of the felines. The cheetahs, seven males and five females from South Africa, were released into quarantine enclosures at the Park, five months after the first batch of eight cheetahs arrived here from Namibia under the same project. Read more. | | | | THE BIG QUESTION Will Delhi finally elect its mayor without further disruption? Delhi lieutenant governor VK Saxena has approved a proposal to convene a session of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) House on February 22, an order from the Raj Niwas said on Saturday, paving the way for councillors to elect a mayor, a day after the Supreme Court directed the meeting for the election be notified within 24 hours. Read more. |  | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING Rhyme, rhythm and Dakhini rap: Meet Bengaluru’s Wanandaf’s cyphers At her first cypher, Anushree Acharya was, to quote Eminem, nervous but on the surface she looked calm and ready to drop bombs. The 21-year-old, who goes by her rap name Putti, had walked into the rap battle in August intending only to watch. But as the musicians around her freestyled in English, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil, she decided to step in too. “I felt that I could spit a verse of mine with their beat, and I went for it,” she says. Putti rapped in Kannada about her abiding memories from the pandemic years. “Belig-beligge yeddid koodale maarukattege ota / Sanje shaamiyana yersi dhanigalu bedutthiruvaru vote-aa.” (Early in the morning, people run to the market / And in the evening, politicians put up tents begging for votes.) Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX Heritage on the brink: Historic homes, temples are fighting climate change Ancient homes in Ladakh that have stood for up to 300 years are under threat from a source no one anticipated: rain. Homes, monasteries and heritage structures across India’s arid and semi-arid zones – Ladakh, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Shekhawati – are scrambling to deal with the impact of unusual weather phenomena. Amid the escalating climate crisis, they are encountering heavy rain, rising humidity, new extremes of heat and cold. Read more. | | THE SPORTING LIFE BY RUDRANEIL SENGUPTA A turbo-boost for women’s cricket The stage is set for the Women’s Premier League (WPL). There are five teams and 87 players on board, bought for a total of ₹59.5 crore at the auction held this past week. Broadcast rights were sold for ₹951 crore, and investors paid ₹4,670 crore for the five franchises earlier, which makes this the second-most-valuable women’s sporting league in the world, after US basketball’s WNBA. Read more. | | HT This Day: February 19, 1976 Mighty warship’ launched Commissioning the “mighty warship” INS Udaygiri here today. Defence Minister Bansi Lal said peace-loving India had no territorial ambition but it had to develop an armed might capable of acting as deterrent against any aggression. Read more. | | | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Shahana Yasmin. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
