May 22, 2009, 18:58: Swearing in ceremony concludes
May 22, 2009, 18:56: CP Joshi sworn in Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:54: Former minister of state for external affairs Anand Sharma sworn in Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:51: BK Handique is the eighteenth minister to be sworn in
May 22, 2009, 18:50: Former minister of Culture Ambika Soni third woman leader to take oath of office
May 22, 2009, 18:49: Advani, Lalu, BS Shekhawat in audience
May 22, 2009, 18:48: President Patil administers oath of office to former Science and Technology minister Kapil Sibal
May 22, 2009, 18:46: Former Petroleum Minister Murli Deora takes oath of office as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:45: Former Social Justice and Empowerment minister Meira Kumar is administered oath of office by President Pratibha Patil
May 22, 2009, 18:43: Former Overseas Indian Affairs minister Vayalar Ravi takes oath of office
May 22, 2009, 18:40: President administers oath of office to former Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath
May 22, 2009, 18:36: Former Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy takes oath
May 22, 2009, 18:34: Veerappa Moily takes oath of office as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:34: Shinde was the first Dalit chief minister of maharashtra and former Union Power minister
May 22, 2009, 18:33: President Pratibha Patil administers oath of office to Sushil Shinde
May 22, 2009, 18:30: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad administered oath to office.
May 22, 2009, 18:28: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Maharashtra governor SM Krishna takes oath as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:26: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee sworn in Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:24: P Chidambaram takes oath as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:22: AK Antony takes oath as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:22: Sharad Pawar third minister to take the oath
May 22, 2009, 18:19: Pranab Mukherjee sworn in as Cabinet minister
May 22, 2009, 18:18: Pranab Mukherjee steps up to be sworn in
May 22, 2009, 18:17: Dr Manmohan Singh sworn in prime minister
May 22, 2009, 18:17: Priyanka, Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra in audience
May 22, 2009, 18:15: PM steps up to take oath
May 22, 2009, 18:15: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and P Chidambaram in first row with PM
May 22, 2009, 18:14: President arrives for the swearing in ceremony
May 22, 2009, 18:14: Montek Singh Ahluwalia, YS Rajasekhara Reddy and Ashok Gehlot among others present
May 22, 2009, 18:13: Swearing-in ceremony begins
May 22, 2009, 18:6: The swearing-in ceremony will start at Rashtrapati Bhawan shortly
May 22, 2009, 17:34: Sharad Pawar-led NCP is satisfied with the talks on portfolio allocation with Congress party, say TV reports
May 22, 2009, 17:33: Congress turn around. Party sources say Ghulam Nabi Azad will not be visiting Chennai to hold talks with DMK Chief M Karunanidhi
May 22, 2009, 16:49: "We have never expressed any reservation about any individual. It is the prerogative of the concerned party to whom it wanted to give representation," says Congress in response to reports that the party was against induction of T R Baalu and A Raja, DMK Ministers in the outgoing government.
May 22, 2009, 15:59: Only Cabinet rank ministers will be sworn in on Friday evening.
May 22, 2009, 15:58: The Prime Minister's Office said in a release that Friday's exercise will be followed in the next few days by an expansion of Council of Ministers, including other cabinet ministers, ministers of state with independent charge as well as other ministers of state.
May 22, 2009, 14:31: Salman Khurshid, Farooq Abdullah, Jairam Ramesh, Scindia, Jitin Prasada are likely to be sworn in on Tuesday
May 22, 2009, 14:30: Arjun Singh dropped from new UPA Cabinet
May 22, 2009, 14:3: Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, former Chief Ministers S M Krishna, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Veerappa Moily will also be inducted in the Cabinet
May 22, 2009, 14:3: Sushilkumar Shinde, S Jaipal Reddy, Kamal Nath, Vayalar Ravi, Meira Kumar, Murli Deora, Kapil Sibal, Ambika Soni, B K Handique, Anand Sharma and C P Joshi also figure in the list of ministers.
May 22, 2009, 13:44: SM Krishna named External Affairs Minister
May 22, 2009, 13:40: Expansion of the Council of Ministers will take place in
the next few days
May 22, 2009, 13:40: S M Krishna, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Veerappa Moily, C P Joshi
new entrants in the Union Cabinet
May 22, 2009, 13:40: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 19 others to take
oath this evening
May 22, 2009, 13:8: The government formation process will take place in two stages, sources say, adding that only Cabinet ministers will be sworn in on Friday while ministers of state will be sworn in later
May 22, 2009, 12:52: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad likely to meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi in Chennai on Saturday in a bid to break the deadlock over allocation of ministerial berths.
May 22, 2009, 12:44: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi scripted keeping out DMK MPs T R Baalu and A Raja from the Union Cabinet, say sources
May 22, 2009, 12:38: Around 10 ministers to be sworn in today, say sources
May 22, 2009, 12:31: PM-Sonia meeting over Cabinet list ends
May 22, 2009, 12:17: DMK chief Karunanidhi has left for Chennai.
May 22, 2009, 12:1: Dr Singh has assured National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah that he will be inducted into the Cabinet when the first expansion takes place, says Jammu and Kashmir chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
May 22, 2009, 12:0: All DMK MPs along with A Raja will attend the swearing in
of Dr Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister, says T R Baalu.
May 22, 2009, 11:59: President Sonia Gandhi holds fresh discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the vexed issue of portfolio allocation.
May 22, 2009, 11:59: The DMK, a key pre-poll ally of the Congress, will stay out of the new government, providing outside support following a deadlock in negotiations with Congress over portfolios
May 22, 2009, 11:52: