International Monetary Fund Managing Director on rapes in India

United Nations, April 20: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian authorities should pay more attention to women s issues in the aftermath of the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.Answering a question at a news conference in Washington on Thursday about the Kathua incident, she said: "What has happened is just revolting.""I would hope that the Indian authorities, starting with Prime Minister Modi, pay more attention because it is needed for the women of India."When I was last in Davos, after Prime Minister Modi s speech, I did tell him that he had not mentioned the women of India enough," Lagarde said.