♦ Singapore ranked first and India 16th in the Responsible Nations' Index (RNI) launched by former president Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi on 19 January 2026. Switzerland was second, Denmark third and the Central African Republic stood last on the 154-nation index. 

♦ India's neighbour Pakistan was in the 90th place. China was ranked 68th and the US 66th, according to the RNI.

♦ Kovind launched the RNI, a first-of-its-kind global index that evaluates countries based on how responsibly they exercise power towards their citizens, global community and the planet.

♦ The RNI is a global evaluative framework developed by the think tank World Intellectual Foundation (WIF) in academic collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and methodological validation by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Mumbai.

♦ The index is anchored in three core dimensions - internal responsibility, environmental responsibility and external responsibility.

♦ The RNI has been operationalised through seven dimensions, 15 aspects and 58 indicators.