The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

You have two buckets of 11 liters and 6 litres.
How can you measure exactly 8 litres?

If Japan and Panama decided to merge into a single country, probably people will name it Japanama.

Can you think of two more such country's unions that could produce similar names like Japanama by overlapping their three letters?

There are two insects on a tile. Insect X is sitting on one side of the tile (point A) and Insect Y is sitting opposite on the other side of the tile (point B). Now both of them decide to change their position and thus X starts crawling to point B and Y starts crawling to point A. When they meet and pass each other in between, X takes 20 seconds to reach B and Y takes just 5 seconds to reach A.

Can you calculate the total time each of the insects took to change their positions?

Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?

If you toss a coin 10 times and it lands heads up every time, what are the chances it will land heads up if you toss it again?

Can you Find and name the hidden bird in the picture below ?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?