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Decoding a PAN number

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PAN number or the Permanent Account Number is a unique, 10-character alpha-numeric, issued primarily for  universal identification of all financial transactions and to prevent tax evasion by keeping track of monetary transactions.  It is issued by the Indian Income Tax Department under the supervision of the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT). In any given PAN number, the First five characters are letters, next four are numerals, and the last character is letter. The first three letters is a sequence of alphabets from AAA to ZZZ and this selection is random. The fourth character informs about the type of holder of the card. Each holder is uniquely defined as below: A  — Association of Persons (AOP) B  — Body of Individuals (BOI) C  — Company F  — Firm G  — Government H  — HUF (Hindu Undivided Family)  L  — Local Authority J  — Artificial Juridical Person P  — Individual T  — AOP (Trust) K ...

How to retrieve auto-saved passwords on Google Chrome

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We tend to auto-save our passwords when logging into certain websites. Once we choose Chrome to save the password for auto-login, over a period of we tend to forget these passwords. Here is a hack that helps you access all those passwords. Follow the below instructions - Step 1 - Go to Chrome Settings page as depicted below Step 2 - Scroll down the settings page. At the end of the page you can find "Show Advanced Settings". Click on it. Step 3 - Once you click the option "Show Advanced Settings", scroll down to find "Manage Passwords". Step - 4 Once you click on "Manage Passwords", a screen pops out showing the accounts/websites for which Chrome has saved password(s). Click on "Show" against each site to know the password for each site. Alternatively, you could go to passwords.google.com to know the saved passwords for each of the sites you have saved.