CHENNAI: To spread the message of peace and non-violence, the Ahimsa Run was organised on Sunday. The run has made into the Guinness World Records with 3 categories of run – 3 km, 5 km, and 10 km – organised at 65 cities in India and 10 international locations on the same day at the same time, marking the greatest number of pledges for a peace run.

The JITO Ahimsa Run was held at Olcott Memorial Higher Secondary School, Besant Nagar and flagged off by Minister of Information Technology T Mano Thangaraj, ADGP Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal and Rajasthan’s Petroleum Minister Promad Bhaya Jain and others.