WAM 4 - Father of the Nation for RailFans - Vikas Kumar

Its been 10 years since I moved out of India I see that things have changed a bit but not too much. I will be moving to Chandigarh and my roots are in Hyderabad. I have spent more than an hour on the net in answer to the simple question "Are there any direct trains from Chandigarh to Delhi?" I suppose we will need an Apple inc to look into this problem.
Right now it seems I need to know multiple stations in each city and then look up each train via the number/station code and on Yatra and Make my trip I have to decide my travel dates in advance no matter that some trains are not daily and I...
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have to just cycle through inputting details many many times to arrive at some knowledge.
Indian railway has on their website the wonderful info "what seats are available at a particular station (ie on all trains in every possible direction)" how nice this is just what a person contemplating travel needs!!
So someone can help with this question or direct me to some place where I can get information. I have already been to the railway timetable page and it is just as good as it used to be in print a decade ago.