Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

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?

12345 a famous South Indian actor
567 is a path in jumbled form
8 & 10 are same letters
9 is one among the first six alphabets.
WHO AM I?

How can one talk without saying a single word?

John killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

Always in you, Sometimes on you;

If I surround you, I can kill you.

What am I?

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

Can you count the number of quadrilaterals in the picture below?