Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- The 73rd birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, will be celebrated across the country today, report agencies.

Sheikh Hasina, the eldest of five children of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Begum Fazilatunnesa, was born in Gopalganj's Tungipara this day, September 28, in 1947.

Like previous years, Awami League and its affiliated organisations will celebrate the day through various programmes. But this time there is an added attraction for them that for the first time since returning to power as prime minister in 2009, she will be in Dhaka for her birthday.

Previously, more-or-less every year from 2009 to 2019, her birthday was spent in New Yor...