India News: UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has cancelled a reception to be hosted in his honour by the Indian consul general here on Saturday, even as the mission said it would strongly take up with the US authorities the issue of his minister Azam Khan's detention at the Boston airport.

A communique from the Indian consulate in New York merely stated, "that due to unavoidable circumstances, the reception scheduled to be held in honour of Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, hon'ble chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on April 27 at the Consulate General of India, New York, has been cancelled".