Quick notes: Digital colonization, Autophagy...

• Breaking the Duopoly: RIL to enter e-commerce, take on Amazon and Flipkart . . . Reliance's e-commerce entry to reduce digital colonisation: Mohandas Pai 



• Jats not to support the BJP: . . Restrict Yadavs to under 10% of the quota. Only then will Jats be happy.



• Sabarimala will be the end of Marxism in India:




• Fasting diets are going mainstream: Cycles of fasting help the body eliminate and replace damaged cells with new ones through a process called autophagy (the study of which recently garnered a Nobel Prize). 



• Sleep deprivation: Inadequate sleep decreases levels of the satiety-signalling hormone, leptin, and increases levels of the hunger-signalling hormone, ghrelin. The result is cells becoming less responsive to insulin. It also increases our risk of cancer, heart attack, and Alzheimer’s. 



• Spy tech: Germany 'considers ban on Huawei' amid global backlash



• Ancient DNA research: Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.



• Canada wastes more than half its food: Manmohan Singh lied to parliament on this.