`README` badges not getting rendered properly in `pkgdown` website

I have thus far created 6 different pkgdown websites for my R packages (e.g., ggstatsplot, kittyR, etc.) and none of them ever had the following issue.

For the first time, running the following command

pkgdown::build_site(
  lazy = FALSE,
  run_dont_run = TRUE,
  seed = 123,
  devel = TRUE
)

is not rendering README badges and I am not sure why since the yaml I am using is similar to my other packages. I had raised issue on pkgdown GitHub repo, but it didn't help.

More explicitly, here is what my README looks like-

• README: https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/ipmisc/blob/master/README.md

And here is what the pkgdown output looks like-

• pkgdown: https://indrajeetpatil.github.io/ipmisc/

I get no warnings or errors while building the website., but as can be seen here, the badges are not rendered at all on the homepage. Any ideas on why this might be happening or how to resolve it?

Thanks in advance.