I never stop running even when I standstill. If I am formed by joining two identical bodies together, can you guess who I am?

A famous swimmer can swim downstream in a lake in exactly 40 minutes with the lake current.
He can swim upstream in that lake in exactly 60 minutes against the lake current.
The length of the lake is 2 km.

How long he can cover the distance of one side at a still lake with no current?

Can you count the number of squares in the given picture?

Can you identify the direction in which this bus is moving; left or right?

Hint: The bus is moving on the roads of London.

Akbar called Birbal and asked him to draw a line on the floor. He asked Birbal to make that line smaller without erasing it. Birbal smiled and did it before Akbar could blink his eyes.

How did he managed to do it?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

Given that

(78)^9 = 6
And (69)^4 = 11

Can you find out

(99)^2 =?

(Note: This is Logical, not Mathematical)

How many letters are in the alphabet?

No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

Solve the puzzle by telling what does below picture means.