I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

I got a bee but no honey.
got an eye but am still blind.
got a sea but no water.
got a tea but no coffee.
got a why but no answer.

What Am I?

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

You need to arrange three 7 and mathematical symbols to form number 1?

One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?

Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member ?